Sylvia's Lovers
A Literature, 19th Century, Historical book. ... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ... Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers...
'The saddest story I ever wrote.' Mrs GaskellSylvia's Lovers is set during the French Revolutionary Wars in the remote whaling-port of Monkshaven in Yorkshire. The sea dominates the lives of the inhabitants: whalers returning from their long and dangerous trips to Greenland bring crowds to the quayside, every local man has tales to recount of his exploits at sea, and smuggling is rife. The people of...
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- Pages: 560 pages
- ISBN: 9780192815712 / 192815717
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All the morning since he got up he had been trying to fight through his dutiesleaning against a hopea hope that first had bowed, and then had broke as soon as he really tried its weight. There was not a sign of Sylvias liking for him to be gathered from the most careful recollection of the past evening. It was of no use thinking there was. It was better to give it up altogether and at once. But what if he could not? What if the thought of her was bound up with his life; and that once torn out by his own free will, the very roots of his heart must come... But between the busy heads and over-reaching arms he could see Charley and Sylvia, sitting close together, talking and listening more than eating. She was in a new strange state of happiness not to be reasoned about, or accounted for, but in a state of more exquisite feeling than she had ever experienced before; Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers // And again it's no fair play to t' French. Four o' them is rightly matched wi' one o' us; and if we go an' fight 'em four to four it's like as if yo' fell to beatin' Sylvie there, or little Billy Croxton, as isn't breeched. And that's my mind. Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers //
BBC Radio Listeners A fine example of the Classic English Novel. Slow-paced and well drawn, it takes its time weaving you into its spell... and then all of the sudden you realize you can't rest until you find out how the painful dilemma is solved. Heartbreaking and beautiful. I loved it. Gli innamorati di Sylvia una delle storie pi tristi che mi sia capitato di leggere*, in un certo senso anche una storia d'amore:c' l'amore corrisposto ed infelice perch vede i due innamorati separati da un tragico imprevisto, c' l'amore ossessivo, che si basa sull'adorazione dell'amata e sull'annullamento di s solo per ottenere un cenno,...
