Passionné(e) de lecture ? Inscrivez-vous gratuitement ou connectez-vous pour rejoindre la communauté et bénéficier de toutes les fonctionnalités du site !  

Diana of the Crossways

Couverture du livre « Diana of the Crossways » de George Meredith aux éditions Culturea
  • Date de parution :
  • Editeur : Culturea
  • EAN : 9791041946013
  • Série : (-)
  • Support : Papier
Résumé:

Diana Warwick, beautiful, charming and intelligent but hotheaded, becomes embroiled in a political as well as a social scandal. She says: We women are the verbs passive of the alliance, we have to learn, and if we take to activity, with the best intentions, we conjugate a frightful disturbance.... Voir plus

Diana Warwick, beautiful, charming and intelligent but hotheaded, becomes embroiled in a political as well as a social scandal. She says: We women are the verbs passive of the alliance, we have to learn, and if we take to activity, with the best intentions, we conjugate a frightful disturbance. We are to run on lines, like the steam-trains, or we come to no station, dash to fragments. I have the misfortune to know I was born an active. I take my chance. Her efforts to advance her husband, through cultivating a friendship with Cabinet Minister Lord Dannisburgh, lead to scandal and alienation from her husband, Augustus Warwick. Her intention to live independently through writing is initially successful, but her involvement in politics brings her to grief, both personal and public.

Donner votre avis