Opis: The Ladies of Grace Adieu - Clarke Susanna

Like Clarke's first novel, the bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, these eight stories (seven previously published) are set in an England where magic is a serious but sometimes neglected field of study. The first story sees the erudite Strange tangling with country witches. Others show Austenesque concern with love and its outcomes ("Did you not hear me ask you to marry me"), often involving fairies. In "The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse," the duke visits Faerie, a kingdom located on the other side of the wall in the village of Wall (a location Clarke borrows from Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess), and meets a woman whose needlework affects the future. In the footnoted "Tom Brightwind or How the Fairy Bridge...," a "monumental" stone bridge is built in one afternoon. Clarke humorously revisits Rumplestiltzkin in "On Lickerish Hill," in which it is revealed that "Irishmen have tailes neare a quarter of a yard longe." Clarke may have trouble reaching a new audience in short form, as the stories provide less opportunity to get lost in fantastical material, but the author's many fans will be glad to have these stories in one volume.

Szczegóły: The Ladies of Grace Adieu - Clarke Susanna

Tytuł: The Ladies of Grace Adieu
Autor: Clarke Susanna
Wydawnictwo: Bloomsbury
Kod paskowy: 9781596912519
ISBN: 1596912510
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2006
Ilość stron: 240
Format: 16.0x24.0cm
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.495 kg

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