Lucas Malet

Broschiertes Buch

The Tall Villa (1919)

Beschreibung

The Tall Villa is a novel written by Lucas Malet and originally published in 1919. The story is set in a grand villa in the Italian countryside, where a group of wealthy and privileged individuals gather for a summer holiday. Among the guests are the beautiful and enigmatic Lady Adela Lusk, her husband Sir Julian, and their young daughter. As the days pass, tensions and secrets begin to surface, and the idyllic atmosphere of the villa is shattered by jealousy, betrayal, and murder. The novel explores themes of class, gender, power, and desire, as the characters navigate their complex relationships and hidden motivations. The narrative is told from multiple perspectives, providing a nuanced and layered portrayal of the characters and their experiences. Malet's prose is evocative and atmospheric, capturing the lush beauty of the Italian landscape and the simmering tensions beneath the surface of the social elite. The Tall Villa is a gripping and suspenseful tale of love, lust, and betrayal, and a vivid portrait of a bygone era.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Autor

Lucas Malet, a Victorian novelist, and other name know as Mary St Leger Kingsley. Her works, The Wages of Sin (1891) and The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901), were particularly popular. Malet historian Talia Schaffer says that she was "widely regarded as one of the premier writers of fiction in the English-speaking world" at the zenith of her career, but her reputation dwindled by the end of her life, and she is now rarely read or studied. She was born in the rectory in Eversley, Hampshire, as the younger daughter of Reverend Charles Kingsley (author of The Water Babies) and his wife Frances Eliza Grenfell, the couple's third child. In 1876, Mary married the Rev. William Harrison, her father's colleague, Minor Canon of Westminster, and Queen's Priest-in-Ordinary. Malet abandoned his artistic ambitions following the marriage. The marriage was childless and miserable, and the couple separated soon after. Following her divorce, Malet pursued an independent writing career, adopting her pen name by combining two obscure family surnames. Her debut novel, Mrs. Lorimer, a Sketch in Black and White, was released in 1882. Malet's second novel, Colonel Enderby's Wife, published in 1885, drew critical notice and admiration for its fictionalization of her brief failed marriage. Five years after her husband died, Kingsley converted to Catholicism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781437300055
• ISBN-10: 1437300057
• Artikelnr.: 25866799