Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798741451250
Sylvia's Lovers By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Illustrated Edition) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Pdf
This tragic tale from Elizabeth Gaskell follows the wartime love affairs of the title character. After her true love is believed to havet perished at sea, Sylvia seeks stability in a loveless arranged marriage. But does her husband know more about her first lover's fate than he is admitting? The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monks haven (modeled on Whit by, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars.