Richard Doddridge Blackmore was a well-known English novelist of the second half of the nineteenth century. He got famous for vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside, sharing with Thomas Hardy a Western England background and a strong sense of regional setting in his works. "Alice Lorraine: a tale of the South Downs" is his novel, published in 1875. Set in Sussex and Spain during the Napoleonic Wars, the book recounts the divergent adventures of the eponymous heroine and her brother in their efforts to save the noble Lorraine family from ruin.

© 2019 Good Press (eBook): 4057664606679

Data wydania

eBook: 27 listopada 2019