Miss Mackenzie - Couverture souple

Trollope, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0192818465 ISBN 13 : 9780192818461

Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1988

Synopsis

This novel, written in 1864 and first published in 1865, follows the fortunes of a middle-aged spinster "overwhelmed with money troubles", as she tries to assess the worth and motives of four very different suitors. In "Miss Mackenzie", Trollope made a deliberate attempt "to prove that a novel may be produced without love", by choosing as his heroine an unattractive, middle-aged woman, but as he admits in his autobiography, even in "this attempt it breaks down before the conclusion" and she was in love by the end of the book and made a romantic marriage. At the same time, Trollope also gives a comic portrait of evangelical society in a provincial watering-place. The editor, A.O.J. Cockshut is author of "Truth to life" and "Art of autobiography" as well as studies of Trollope, Dickens and Scott, and the chronology is by John Halperin.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

MISS MACKENZIE (1865) by Anthony Trollope is the story of "a very unattractive old maid" as the author originally called her. But Trollope must have changed his mind in the writing, because the steadfast and sensible heroine comes across as highly sympathetic to the reader, and once again the subject of love is inescapable. Miss Mackenzie, a spinster long past her first bloom, with the sudden possibility of a fortune, is beset by suitors and personal choices. A deft exploration of money, love, and relationships by a master of sensibility, caricature, and the social mores of his time.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope, 1865.
Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as The Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0192818465
• ISBN 13: 9780192818461
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Éditeur: Cockshut A. O. J.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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