The French lieutenant's woman
1969, First Edition. London : Cape. Finely and sumptuously bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with the title blocked direct in gilt. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 445 pages; The story of a woman wronged, set against a backdrop of an unrelenting Victorian England. A classic story of lost love, set in deeply repressive Victorian England. It centres on the tragic figures of Charles Smithson, a palaeontologist, and Sara Woodruffe, a sensual, eccentric and apparently fallen woman, who are ostracized for daring to question the tyranny of the era's social mores. Although the novel is firmly rooted in Lyme Regis in 1867, it is shot through with authorial comment and insight which provide a critique of both the Victorian novel and the society which produced it. Subjects; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) - England - Lyme Regis - Fiction. Man-woman relationships - England - Lyme Regis - Fiction. Item #193686
ISBN: 0224616544
Price: €295.00