Indeed, this novel can be read as a critique of Sensibility, a behavioral phenomenon that tries to correlate a person's emotional sensitivity with her elevated moral sentiments.
The plot of the novel centers on the newly married Leonora and her decision to bring back to England a woman who had been exiled to France.
Leonara is a first in francophone Caribbean literature: neither fiction nor biography, this book by sociologist and Creole-culture advocate Dany Bebel-Gisler has elements of both novelistic and documentary style.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Born in Lancashire as the wealthy heiress to her British father's textiles empire, Leonora Carrington was destined to live the kind of life only known by the moneyed classes.
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Excerpt: ...on the marsh, mother, walking from Oldcastle to Bursley, ' said Ethel, after the ritual of greeting, 'and so we brought him in.' As Leonora was on the point...
In this story of passion and ambition, the author tells of woman's refusal to submit to the will of men in a man's world - and of the price she must pay to achieve her aim.
... szczupłe uda?” Wyobraża sobie, że jej nogi są silne i ciepłe, zamyka oczy. Marie Berthe otwiera drzwi. – Jeszcze tu jesteś? To posłuchaj: jutro wyjeżdżam z mężem na wakacje, a ty wracasz prościutko na swoją wyspę! – Wyjadę, kiedy on ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
An encounter between a Russian count and an English lady sparks an instant attraction between them, which leads from an interlude into a marriage filled with difficulties, dangers, and tender love.