Diana Tempest, Volume Ii

Diana Tempest, Volume Ii

Mary Cholmondeley

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Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2021
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9789354847929
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A quietly radical portrait of life, love, and duty that still resonates today. Diana Tempest, Volume II unfolds with wit, scrutiny, and a moral clarity that makes the ordinary feel extraordinary.This classic british novel carries the weight of late nineteenth-century Britain as it examines marital expectations, women autonomy, and the quiet revolutions of a society in transition. Through keen social observation and intimate character study, Mary Cholmondeley delivers a compelling edwardian fiction that reads with the immediacy of contemporary fiction while inviting academic literary analysis. The novel functions as a social novel in the best Victorian and Edwardian tradition, offering a humane critique of status, gender roles, and communal pressure, yet never sacrificing warmth or humanity. It speaks to both the general reading audience and seasoned collectors who seek a work in the mould of victoria realism and the moral clarity associated with george eliot.Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this edition is restored for today’s readers and for future generations. More than a reprint, it is a collector’s item and a cultural treasure, a doorway into edwardian england where nuance, conscience, and curiosity meet. A sparkling bridge between scholarship and sensibility, Diana Tempest invites both new discovery and lasting reverence.

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