Melvyn Bragg’s highly acclaimed, bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century’s greatest scandals.’This is the story of an impostor and bigamist, a self-styled Colonel Hope, who travels to the North, where eventually he marries "The Maid of Buttermere", a young woman whose natural beauty inspired the dreams and confirmed the theories of various early nineteenth-century writers . . . It is a fine story . . . This is historical fiction with a human face’Peter Ackroyd, The Times’A skilled, ornate and convincing examination of a nineteenth-century scandal in Bragg’s own Cumbria’Thomas Keneally’A triumph . . . I am overwhelmingly impressed’Beryl Bainbridge’Bragg achieves the most difficult of feats, the telling of the changing perceptions and ideals of a radical age . . . He is also as powerful as ever in his description of nature’Sunday Times
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781848942585 ● Maison d’édition Hodder & Stoughton ● Publié 2012 ● Téléchargeable 6 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 2737030 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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