Fortitude (Cosimo Classics Literature) - Softcover

Walpole, Hugh

 
9781596055025: Fortitude (Cosimo Classics Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1596055022 ISBN 13: 9781596055025
Verlag: Cosimo Classics, 2005

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"Do you really want me, Peter?"He didn’t speak but his whole body turned towards her, answering her question."Because I am yours entirely. I became yours that day when your hand touched mine. I wasn’t sure before-I knew then-"He looked at her. He saw her, he thought for the first time....-from FortitudeThe first great success of one of the most popular novelists of the early 20th century, Fortitude (1913) is the author’s own favorite work. A romantic novel with a fairy-tale air, it is the life story of Peter Wescott, "who very naïvely believed in almost everything," as Walpole himself described him. As a quiet, polite child, Peter stoically endures horrific beatings from his father; as a dreamy young man, Peter finds himself swept away into reverie by the titles of books (he doesn’t even need to read them) and escapes into his own fiction when grief and tragedy strike. With early hints of the supernatural and the psychological suspense that would infuse Walpole’s later work, this is an important formative work of a writer whose work deserves to be seen anew.British writer SIR HUGH WALPOLE (1884-1941) was born in New Zealand and moved to England as a child. His works include novels, short stories, biographies, plays, and screenplays.

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"Do you really want me, Peter?" He didn't speak but his whole body turned towards her, answering her question. "Because I am yours entirely. I became yours that day when your hand touched mine. I wasn't sure before-I knew then-" He looked at her. He saw her, he thought for the first time.... -from Fortitude The first great success of one of the most popular novelists of the early 20th century, Fortitude (1913) is the author's own favorite work. A romantic novel with a fairy-tale air, it is the life story of Peter Wescott, "who very naïvely believed in almost everything," as Walpole himself described him. As a quiet, polite child, Peter stoically endures horrific beatings from his father; as a dreamy young man, Peter finds himself swept away into reverie by the titles of books (he doesn't even need to read them) and escapes into his own fiction when grief and tragedy strike. With early hints of the supernatural and the psychological suspense that would infuse Walpole's later work, this is an important formative work of a writer whose work deserves to be seen anew. British writer SIR HUGH WALPOLE (1884-1941) was born in New Zealand and moved to England as a child. His works include novels, short stories, biographies, plays, and screenplays.

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Verlag
Cosimo Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1596055022
ISBN 13 
9781596055025
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
508
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