While draining a pond during work for the construction of the Stockton to Darlington Railway George Stephenson’s workers discover a female corpse with a dagger stuck between her ribs—could it be that of Lady Beresford, the French wife of a local baron who disappeared under mysterious circumstances twenty years ago? The identity of the victim is at the heart of Jean-Pierre Ohl’s novel, a richly woven tapestry set during the rise of capitalism in England.
The Devil’s Road has a Dickensian range of characters from the indolent liberal lawyer Bailey, with a taste for Byron’s poems and madeira wine, his imperturbable clerk Snegg, the activist worker Davies and the ‘Corporal’, a veteran of the Napoleonic wars and demonstrator wounded at the Peterloo Massacre—there is even a role for the young Charles Dickens working in the blacking warehouse.
The Devil’s Road has a Dickensian range of characters from the indolent liberal lawyer Bailey, with a taste for Byron’s poems and madeira wine, his imperturbable clerk Snegg, the activist worker Davies and the ‘Corporal’, a veteran of the Napoleonic wars and demonstrator wounded at the Peterloo Massacre—there is even a role for the young Charles Dickens working in the blacking warehouse.
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For many years an academic with a special interest in Austrian literature and culture, Mike Mitchell has been a freelance literary translator since 1995.
Dil İngilizce ● Biçim EPUB ● Sayfalar 345 ● ISBN 9781912868131 ● Dosya boyutu 0.4 MB ● Çevirmen Mike Mitchell ● Yayımcı DEDALUS ● Kent London ● Ülke GB ● Yayınlanan 2019 ● İndirilebilir 24 aylar ● Döviz EUR ● Kimlik 7133933 ● Kopya koruma Sosyal DRM
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