Esta novela recorre la vida de Harriett Frean, desde su niñez hasta su muerte a los sesenta y ocho años, una vida destinada a ser ejemplo de rectitud y urbanidad., tal y como le inculcaron sus padres: una vida destinada a ser ejemplo de comportamiento. Asi, renunciara al amor pero con los años se planteara si la vida que escogio no produjo infelicidad a todos los que le rodearon e incluso a ella misma. Cuentos extraños ofrece una serie de relatos de ambientacion gotica que se cuentan entre los preferidos de Jorge L. Borges.
O livro Histórias Insólitas (Uncanny Stories), da escritora britânica May Sinclair, revela ao longo de sete contos extraordinários, fantásticos e misteriosos, permeados por uma aura sobrenatural e mí
This book deals with the life history and writings of three great female authors: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, who all died relatively young. These three daughters of a poor country clergyman, published, at the beginning, their poems and novels under male pseudonyms, like many contemporary female writers; before to become famous all over the world. It is impossible to write of the three Brontes and forget the place they lived in, the black-grey, naked village, bristling like a rampart on the clean edge of the moor; the street, dark and steep as a gully, climbing the hill to the Parsonage at the top; the small oblong house, naked and grey, hemmed in on two sides by the graveyard, its five windows flush with the wall, staring at the graveyard where the tombstones, grey and naked, are set so close that the grass hardly grows between. The church itself is a burying ground; its walls are tombstones, and its floor roofs the forgotten and the unforgotten dead....
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