The novel, set in the 18th cent., is based on a story by Wilkie Collins. It was unusually frank for its time and Reade was prosecuted in a case in which Dickens (‘as a husband and father’) refused to help defend him. Reade's interest lay clearly not only in the theme of jealousy, both male and female, but in the sexual nature of the heroine Kate, an ardent young woman who is attracted to one suitor, marries another (Griffith Gaunt), and then falls in love with her spiritual director, unleashing a trail of violence which eventually ends in reconciliation with her husband.
Voices from a Forgotten Letter: Poems on the Syrian Civil War explores the Syrian Civil War from the perspectives of civilians, Unique in the war canon because of its focus on civilians, this book will give you a perspective of war you have never seen before. The civilians range from the young to the old, from the educated to the working class, from refugees to the wives of sol...
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