Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... Grisly Grisell (1893)di Charlotte M. Yonge
Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane Editoriali
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - A terrible shriek rang through the great Manor-house of Amesbury. It was preceded by a loud explosion, and there was agony as well as terror in the cry. Then followed more shrieks and screams, some of pain, some of fright, others of anger and recrimination. Every one in the house ran together to the spot whence the cries proceeded, namely, the lower court, where the armourer and blacksmith had their workshops. There was a group of children, the young people who were confided to the great Earl Richard and Countess Alice of Salisbury for education and training. Boys and girls were alike there, some of the latter crying and sobbing, others mingling with the lads in the hot dispute as to "who did it." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessunoCopertine popolari
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813Literature English (North America) American fictionClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |
Neither her fiance nor her parents want anything to do with her an she ends up under the care of a healer in a convent. She'd be more than happy to stay there, but outside events make that impossible and several years later, she is forced to make her way home, where she gains acceptance through her good heart and skill as a healer. Eventually, war resumes and her father brings home Leonard as a prisoner to make him marry Grisell. In love with another woman, he leaves without seeing her face during the wedding.
Fast forward a bit and they both end up in exile in Burgundy, where Grisell works for Leonard's benefit without telling him she's his wife. She hopes that he'll release her so that she can enter a convent instead of being a burden to him. As you might expect for a Victorian novel with a moral, in the end they all live happily ever after (except for the treacherous servant girl, of course).
As a side note, Yonge was a follower of John Keble and the Oxford Movement, so she's a bit more positive about medieval Catholicism than many of her peers, and Grisell almost comes off as a Catholic novel.
It's a fun, but definitely dated read, and the imitation medieval English can get a bit annoying. For those who want a taste, it's available for free on Project Gutenberg. ( )