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"Solo, nella mia camera, alla luce di un povero lume, ripensai lungamente alla strana avventura di cui ero stato spettatore. Ero ancora pieno d'onta per quella voce che aveva detto: - Chi è costui? Che cosa vuole da me? - con tanto disprezzo; e della mia voce che aveva risposto: - Nulla ... nessuno. Lo stesso rossore mi avvampava il viso, ed io vedevo lei, Daria, seduta, in quell'atteggiamento aggressivo; vedevo la curva sprezzante della sua bocca, sentivo la sferza dei suoi sguardi ardenti su me, mentre diceva: - Chi è costui? Che cosa vuole da me? Certamente l'avevo offesa; volendo consolarla, l'avevo umiliata. Ella mi odiava, ora, per la mia sciocca pietà, per quelle mortificanti parole che non avevo saputo trattenere." Il protagonista, Paris, racconta la sua vita errata, invano anelante alla felicità e fallita per inesperienza. A questa confessione si accompagna la trama fantastica che ricorda molto Hoffman de "L'uomo della sabbia", quindi una scrittura lenta, pulita, misurata, dotata di una intrinseca quiete, contrapposta in qualche modo al suo contenuto e che crea un'atmosfera intrisa di suggestione e di mistero che vi legherà alla pagina.
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The romance novel, which is sometimes termed the romantic novel, places its primary focus on the development of a romantic relationship and love between two people. The sub-genres of the romance novel include: fantasy, historical romance, paranormal fiction, and science fiction. Romance novels existed in ancient Greece, and were also to be found in the literary fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen.
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A Romance Jean Paul ... Urz. Brasser's delightful cruise in the Sunbeam is the very romance of adven: turutas yaittir ... 2. 75. " The author has told fully and fearlessly, the story of Turner ' s Life as far as he con learn it, and has filled his piges with anecdotes ... V 1. Evening Post. " It is a book which every one with the slightest interest in art will read with eager interest.
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Excerpt from Penelope, or Love's Labour Lost
Had heard in the autumn, that it was very probable that Robert Darnley might be in England, and that through the intervention of.
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Fergusson Wright Hume, known as Fergus Hume (8 July 1859 - 12 July 1932) was a prolific English novelist. Finding that the novels of Émile Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, he obtained and read a set of them and determined to write a novel of a similar kind. The result was the self-published novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), which became a great success. Hume based his descriptions of poor urban life on his knowledge of Little Bourke Street. He sold the English and United States rights to the novel for 50 pounds, and thus derived little benefit from its success. It eventually became the best selling mystery novel of the Victorian era, author John Sutherland terming it the "most sensationally popular crime and detective novel of the century".This novel inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to write A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the character Sherlock Holmes. Doyle remarked, "Hansom Cab was a slight tale, mostly sold by 'puffing'." After the success of his first novel and the publication of another, Professor Brankel's Secret (c.1886), Hume returned to England in 1888.He resided in London for few years and then he moved to the Essex countryside where he lived in Thundersley for 30 years, eventually producing more than 100 novels and short stories. He continued to be anxious for success as a dramatist, and at one time Henry Irving was favourably considering one of his plays, but he died before it could be produced.
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Susanna Moodie (born Strickland; 6 December 1803 - 8 April 1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time.Susanna Moodie was born in Bungay, on the River Waveney in Suffolk. She was the younger sister of a family of writers, including Agnes Strickland, Jane Margaret Strickland and Catharine Parr Traill.She wrote her first children's book in 1822, and published other children's stories in London, including books about Spartacus and Jugurtha. In London she was also involved in the Anti-Slavery Society, transcribing the narrative of the former Caribbean slave Mary Prince.[3] On 4 April 1831, she married John Moodie, a retired officer who had served in the Napoleonic Wars. In 1832, with her husband and daughter, Moodie immigrated to Upper Canada. The family settled on a farm in Douro township, near Lakefield, north of Peterborough, where her brother Samuel worked as a surveyor, and where artifacts are housed in a museum. Founded by Samuel, the museum was formerly an Anglican church and overlooks the Otonabee River where Susanna once canoed. It also displays artifacts concerning both Samuel and Catharine Parr Traill. Moodie continued to write in Canada and her letters and journals contain valuable information about life in the colony. She observed life in what was then the backwoods of Ontario, including native customs, the climate, the wildlife, relations between the Canadian population and recent American settlers, and the strong sense of community and the communal work, known as "bees" (which she, incidentally, hated). She suffered through the economic depression in 1836, and her husband served in the militia against William Lyon Mackenzie in the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837. As a middle-class Englishwoman, Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it. In 1840 she and her husband moved to Belleville, which she referred to as "the clearings". She studied the Family Compact and became sympathetic to the moderate reformers led by Robert Baldwin, while remaining critical of radical reformers such as William Lyon Mackenzie. This caused problems for her husband, who shared her views, but, as sheriff of Belleville, had to work with members and supporters of the Family Compact. In 1852, she published Roughing it in the Bush, detailing her experiences on the farm in the 1830s. In 1853, she published Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush, about her time in Belleville. She remained in Belleville, living with various family members (particularly her son Robert) after her husband's death, and lived to see Canadian Confederation. She died in Toronto, Ontario on 8 April 1885 and is buried in Belleville Cemetery. Her greatest success was Roughing it in the Bush. The inspiration for the memoir came from a suggestion by her editor that she write an "emigrant's guide" for British people looking to move to Canada. Moodie wrote of the trials and tribulations she found as a "New Canadian", rather than the advantages to be had in the colony. She claimed that her intention was not to discourage immigrants but to prepare people like herself, raised in relative wealth and with no prior experience as farmers, for what life in Canada would be like.
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