Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers (Pauline's Passion and Punishment; The Mysterious Key and What It Opened; The Abbott's Ghost) PDF Louisa May Alcott

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Despite her preoccupation with passionate and angry heroines, Louisa was already too skillful a writer to repeat herself without variation. “The Abbot’s Ghost: or, Maurice Treherne’s Temptation” is set in no exotic Cuban paradise but a haunted English abbey replete with screaming peacocks, thick- walled gallery and arched stone roof, armored figures and an abbot’s ghost. A Dickensian flavor attaches to these Gothic appurtenances as, sitting round the hall fire, the dramatis personae tell tales of ghosts and coffins, skeletons and haunted houses. The star of that dramatis personae is less the hero of the title than the magnificent Edith Snowden, a strong-willed woman burdened by a heavy cross, a mysterious past, and jealousies that conflict with “contending emotions of . . . remorse and despair.” “The Abbot’s Ghost” is filled with psychological insights that illuminate the subtle relationships of the ch

• Book Name: Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers (Pauline's Passion and Punishment; The Mysterious Key and What It Opened; The Abbott's Ghost) pdf
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