Disappeared From Her Home

Disappeared From Her Home

Catherine Louisa Pirkis

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Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2021
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Literatura: historia y crítica
ISBN:
9789354945090
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A haunting invitation to look closer at a world that never fully released its secrets. Something about a quiet home becoming a theatre of disappearance and intrigue will stay with you long after the final line.Disappeared From Her Home gathers a chambered, atmospheric suspense from late nineteenth‑century Victorian England, where social norms are both guard and weapon. The tale blends gothic mystery with domestic suspense fiction, turning a familiar household into a maze of clues, whispers, and family secrets exposure. It feels at once intimate and expansive, inviting classic literature readers and scholarly study use alike to explore motive, motive, and restraint as the pieces click into place with quiet, unsettling precision. The story’s resonance rests in its careful character work, its ethical tremors, and the way it holds a mirror up to a society that policed appearance while concealing truth.Alpha Editions presents a restored edition that honours the original voice while ensuring today’s readers can engage with it afresh. This is more than a reprint - a collector’s item and a cultural treasure, destined to become a library reference copy for libraries and serious readers. For fans of Arthur Conan Doyle’s deft deduction, and for those who want a refined entry point into Victorian short stories, this book is a gateway to a richer understanding of disappearance and intrigue in a meticulously drawn world.

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