Marie Belloc Lowndes

The Story of Ivy

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Produktbeschreibung

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation? Published in the United Kingdom in 1927, The Story of Ivy is a melodramatic murder mystery centered on a young woman, Ivy Lexton, who is caught up in the lifestyle of fashionable London during the Roaring Twenties. Having run through her late husband¿s fortune after only a few years, Ivy chances upon a millionaire whom she seems to be able to charm¿at least at first, before he refuses her further advances. Meanwhile, Ivy must also untangle herself from her devoted lover, a poor but handsome doctor. Considered by The Spectator to be one of Marie Belloc Lowndes¿s best stories, The Story of Ivy was also adapted to the screen as Ivy in 1947, starring Joan Fontaine in the lead role. Lowndes chronicles the significant changes in the culture of post-World War I Britain along with the sensationalism of a murder mystery.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Culturea
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9791041806683
• Artikelnr.: 68433492

Autorenporträt

Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes (née Belloc; 5 August 1868 ¿ 14 November 1947), who wrote as Marie Belloc Lowndes, was a prolific English novelist, and sister of author Hilaire Belloc.