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Louis Trevelyan, a kind and generous man, and Emily, his beautiful and intelligent wife, enjoy an apparently happy marriage until Louis begins to doubt his wife`s fidelity. As his jealousy deepens into obsession and eventually madness, the loyalty of his wife and friends is sorely tried. Against the disintegration of the Trevelyans` marriage, a stimulating cast of characters explores the idea of female emancipation and the difference between obedience and subjection. Although he himself was no supporter of feminism, in this novel some of Trollope`s most spirited characters are single women. Written at the peak of Trollope`s powers, HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT is probably his most powerful novel. Exactly contemporary with John Stuart Mills`s THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN and while the Divorce Act was a relative novelty, the novel addresses many of the issues concerning the rights of women widely discussed in Victorian society. Henry James compared HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT with the work of Balzac because of its unflinching portrayal of human misery.
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Recently divorced, Emily Graham moves into her great-grandmother`s childhood home in an old resort town on the New Jersey shore. When workers find a skeleton buried in the backyard, an age-old family mystery is solved: this is the body of Emily`s great-aunt, who disappeared decades ago. But when the skeleton of a local teenage girl who disappeared only nine years ago is also found, Emily realizes the mystery is deeper and more frightening than she had thought. What she doesn`t realize is that the killer is now after her.
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Elizabeth Gaskell`s 1863 novel takes place in Monkshaven, an English seaport town, during the Napoleonic Wars. When Sylvia`s beloved, Charley, is pressed onto a whaling ship and then reported dead, Sylvia marries her cousin, Philip--only to find that Philip has been guilty of a horrendous betrayal. With her customary insight into character and fascination with domestic detail--and taste for rather sensational plots--Gaskell writes in SYLVIA`S LOVERS about the impact of the war on simple people and about the evils of press gangs, while also creating a classic Victorian love story.
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