Name: The Prisoners of Hartling (en Inglés)
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Author: Beresford, J. D.
ISBN: 9783368912093

portada The Prisoners of Hartling (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Outlook Verlag

Autor

Beresford, J. D.

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

160

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9783368912093

Categorías

Ficción literaria

The Prisoners of Hartling (en Inglés)

Beresford, J. D. (Autor) · Outlook Verlag · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "The Prisoners of Hartling (en Inglés)"

Under No artificial code of honor governs the action of "The Prisoners of Hartling." The reader may wonder at our bringing Mr. Beresford into this company. But this is the Beresford of "The Jervaise Comedy," not him of "Jacob Stahl." He has here written a novel with an idea, rather than a novel of interpretation. He takes a motto from Ecclesiastes, "There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun: namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt." His is a familiar idea in British fiction, the idea of the enslavement of a large circle of blood-relations to the head of the family by reason of his autocratic powers for the ultimate disposal of that sacred possession, the family property. Mr. Beresford gives the situation a romantic turn by investing his ninety-five year old autocrat with almost uncanny powers of persuasion as well as of direct intimidation. His authority is a bubble; but it remains inviolate for generations, and only the dutch courage of love enables our hero to touch and shatter it. To tell the truth, our hero is not much of a hero, romantically speaking, and we don't quite make out what his Eleanor (who does very well as a heroine) sees in him. So far as the Kenyon tribe at large are concerned, the story ends with a punch worthy of our own most accomplished tale-smiths.-The Independent [1922] This story shows the force of a dominating personality and the inertia produced in those enmeshed in its web.