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Wormwood: A Drama of Paris: Broadview Editions

Autor Marie Corelli, Kirsten Macleod
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2004
Marie Corelli's novels are breathtakingly inventive, often defiant interjections in the late-Victorian literary scene, one-of-a-kind mixtures of romance, decadence, aestheticism, naturalism, and the New Woman fiction.
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ISBN-13: 9781551114194
ISBN-10: 1551114194
Pagini: 407
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Broadview Press
Colecția Broadview Pr
Seria Broadview Editions


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Though disparaged by literary critics of her day, Marie Corelli was one of the most popular novelists of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Wormwood (1890) is a lurid tale of unrequited love, betrayal, vengeance, murder, suicide, and addiction. The novel recounts the degeneration of Gaston Beauvais, a promising young Parisian man who, betrayed by his fiancee and his best friend, falls prey to the seductive powers of absinthe. The impact of Gaston's debauchery and addiction on himself, his family, and his friends is graphically recounted in this important contribution to the literature of fin de siecle decadence.

This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a generous selection of contextualizing documents, including excerpts from Corelli's writings on art and literature, nineteenth-century degeneration theories, and clinical and artistic views on absinthe.