Victorian Unfinished Novels

Victorian Unfinished Novels
Author: S. Tomaiuolo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2012-07-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1137008180

The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon.

The Tragedy of the Korosko

The Tragedy of the Korosko
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: London : G. Bell
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1898
Genre: Egypt
ISBN:

An unusual story of East meets West, Conan Doyle's The Tragedy of the Korosko, describes mayhem and madness in the Arabian desert. When a select party of American and English tourists board the Korosko in search of Eastern magic, they are ill prepared for what is to follow. Taken hostage by Islamic fundamentalists, they encounter the ultimate in cross-cultural experiences - one that leaves them fearing for their lives. But what begins as a tale of unforeseen horror is soon transformed into love in a hot climate. Conan Doyle brings his mastery of thrills and suspense to bear on this classic fiction.

Twilight Histories

Twilight Histories
Author: Camilla Cassidy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2022-10-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9004526536

Twilight Histories explores how Gaskell, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy mingled nostalgia with historical fiction. Nostalgia was homesickness before it was a kind of memory, making it a fitting image for the displacements in time and place brought by Victorian modernity.