Margaret Kennedy

Troy Chimneys

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Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny (Elizabeth Bowen): a Regency novel like none before or since.Troy Chimneys purports to be the private memoirs of Miles Lufton, a minor politician of Regency-era Britain. In them he recounts, with tongue partially in cheek, the battle between the two sides of his personality: the man of sensibility versus the ruthless social climber. But as he charms his way into love and power, the duel threatens to destroy him. In Margaret Kennedy's later novels, Anita Brookner observed, virtue does not triumph, patience is not rewarded, people do not receive . . . their just deserts. A tragicomic confession, by a hero… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-946022-30-1
EAN: 9781946022301
Produktnummer: 37919837
Verlag: Mcnally Ed
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Masse: H21.5 cm x B13.2 cm x D2.2 cm 413 g
Gewicht: 413

Über den Autor

Margaret Kennedy (1896-1967) found popular acclaim before the age of thirty with her 1924 novel The Constant Nymph. It sold copies in the millions and spawned no fewer than three screen adaptations. One of the most successful and prolific British novelists of the twentieth century, she also produced literary criticism, plays, screenplays, and a biography of Jane Austen.