HE VENICE NOVELS

HE VENICE NOVELS
Authors
William Dean Howells
Publisher
e-artnow
ISBN
9788026849339
Date
2015-12-29
Size
0.85 MB
Lang
en
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This carefully crafted ebook: "THE VENICE NOVELS: A Foregone Conclusion, Ragged Lady & The Lady of the Aroostook" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.William Dean Howells spent few years in Venice as a consul and he wove the life of the town and country into fiction in a charming manner. Images of this can be found especially in "A Foregone Conclusion", one of his "Venice novels". The history and the background of Venice represent the major part of the incredible story. In "Ragged Lady" he tells an amazing story of a girl who goes to Venice where she meets a men destined to be her husband. As in most of his novels, characters are quite realistic and narrative is tinted with soft humor. "The Lady of the Aroostook" is a novel about the passage of innocence to experience for a young girl and also about the breaking of old customs and traditions. Lydia is gifted with beauty and an astonishing singing voice. She is traveling to Venice aboard...