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Англия, конец XVIII века. Страна охвачена ужасом из-за нарастающей военной мощи французов. Английскому флоту нужны моряки. И Адмиралтейство дает ордера на принудительную вербовку матросов. Молодых людей хватают прямо на улицах и связанными доставляют на корабли. В предвоенном хаосе юная дочь фермера Сильвия влюбляется в красивого матроса-гарпунщика Чарли Кинрейда, в то время как чопорный и идеальный во всем Филипп, кузен Сильвии, сгорает от неразделенной любви к ней. Любовный треугольник ранит острыми углами. Но в жизни героев врываются вербовщики, и хаос большой истории калечит судьбы влюбленных. Лишь пройдя все испытания, раскаявшись и…

Классический викторианский роман Элизабет Гаскелл (1810-1865) описывает любовный треугольник на фоне прибрежного английского городка в бурную эпоху Наполеоновских войн. Жизнь и мечты красавицы Сильвии и двух ее возлюбленных разбиваются в хаосе большой истории. Глубокий и точный анализ неразделенной любви и невыносимой пропасти между долгом и желанием. На русском языке публикуется впервые.

Классический викторианский роман Элизабет Гаскелл (1810-1865) описывает любовный треугольник на фоне прибрежного английского городка в бурную эпоху Наполеоновских войн. Жизнь и мечты красавицы Сильвии и двух ее возлюбленных разбиваются в хаосе большой истории. Глубокий и точный анализ неразделенной любви и невыносимой пропасти между долгом и желанием. На русском языке публикуется впервые.

'He's spoilt my life,- he's spoilt it for as long as iver I live on this earth' The compelling story of an ordinary girl's tragic passion for a man who disappears, Sylvia's Lovers (1863) is Elizabeth Gaskell's last completed novel. Set in a fictional Whitby at the end of the eighteenth century, the novel is a modern revenge tragedy in which well-intentioned actions have unforeseen and terrible human consequences. Sylvia is loved by two men, her serious cousin Philip and the charismatic sailor Charley Kinraid. When one of them betrays her, her path in life seems fixed. Against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars and the ever-present…

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In the 1790s the Yorkshire seaside town of Monkshaven is disturbed by the arrival of the press-gang who come to seize and ship their captives abroad to fight in the Napoleonic wars. In this atmosphere of unease Sylvia's Lovers portrays the rivalries of two men, the sober tradesman Philip Hepburn, who has been devoted to his cousin Sylvia since her childhood, and the whaleship harpooner Charley Kinraid, who is gallant and charming with a reputation as a 'light-of-love' with women. Sylvia's tragedy, vividly and movingly dramatized, is to love one of these men, but to marry the other. Shirley Foster provides an Introduction to this Penguin…

Sylvia's Lovers is set during the French Revolutionary Wars in the remote whaling-port of Monkshaven in Yorkshire where the sea dominates the lives of the inhabitants. The people of Monkshaven hate the French, but they live in greater and more immediate fear of the callous press-gang, who snatch sailors returning from a whaling trip before they have even spoken to their friends or families. In Elizabeth Gaskell's provincial England war mirrors a private violence which has already disrupted the lives of her fictional characters. Sylvia is a heroine loved by two very different men - the bold sailor Charley Kinraid and the cautious and…

A very powerfully moving novel of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, Sylvia’s Lovers is set in the 1790s in an English seaside town. England is at war with France, and press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service. One of their victims is a whaling harpooner named Charley Kinraid, whose charm and vivacity have captured the heart of Sylvia Robson. But Sylvia’s devoted cousin, Philip Hepburn, hopes to marry her himself and, in order to win her, deliberately withholds crucial information—with devastating consequences. The introduction discusses the novel's historical and geographical…

Set in the isolated whaling community of Monkshaven during the Napoleonic wars, Sylvia's Lovers is a strange and tragic love story fused with a tale of the press-gangs' evil tyranny over the local people. Left penniless after her father's death and believing that her lover Charley Kinraid is dead, Sylvia reluctantly marries her devoted but deceitful cousin, Philip Hepburn. When Kinraid, now a wartime hero, unexpectedly returns, the passionate and vulnerable Sylvia breaks under the strain and must make the fateful choice between her two lovers. Always a keen psychological observer of human behaviour, Elizabeth Gaskell reveals the unforeseen…

Классический викторианский роман Элизабет Гаскелл описывает любовный треугольник на фоне прибрежного английского городка в бурную эпоху Наполеоновских войн. Жизнь и мечты красавицы Сильвии и двух ее возлюбленных разбиваются в хаосе большой истории. Глубокий и точный анализ неразделенной любви и невыносимой пропасти между долгом и желанием.