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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Lancashire Witches (1854)di William Harrison Ainsworth
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is the fifth of the gothic romantic historical novels by Ainsworth that I have read, but is my least favourite. Set largely in the early 17th century under the witch-hunting King James I, it was very long and lacked the fairly strong central narrative drive that the others have had. The last of the four major sections into which it is divided in particular seemed overdrawn, with a number of hunting and feasting setpiece scenes, then an ironically fairly rushed dramatic final few short chapters. While there are some creepy and horrific depictions of they way in which alleged witches were identified, denounced and punished at the time, the effect is spoiled here, by the fact that these witches are real witches and portrayed as archetypal evil, mostly older, women. Some of the vernacular dialogue was quite hard to read as well. 3/5 ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: The worldwide persecution of alleged witches in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has been a source of inspiration for many writers and artists. This fictionalized take on the well-publicized case of the Pendle witches of the Lancashire area in England lays bare the intrigue surrounding the case, as well as the remarkable hypocrisy and unfairness of the officials who were responsible for executing 10 men and women on spurious charges of dabbling in the occult. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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