➮ [Ebook] ➩ Deerbrook By Harriet Martineau ➺ – Rildem.co When the Ibbotson sisters Hester and Margaret arrive at the village of Deerbrook to stay with their cousin Mr Grey and his wife speculation is rife that one of them might marry the local apothecary EdWhen the Ibbotson sisters Hester and Margaret arrive at the village of Deerbrook to stay with their cousin Mr Grey and his wife speculation is rife that one of them might marry the local apothecary Edward Hope Although he is immediately attracted to Margaret Hope is ultimately persuaded to marry the beautiful Hester and becomes trapped in an unhappy marriage His troubles are compounded when a malicious village gossip accuses Hope of grave robbing threatening his career A powerful exploration of the nature of ignorance and prejudice Deerbrook also may be regarded as one of the first Victorian novels of English domestic lifeExcerptEvery town bred person who travels in a rich country region knows what it is to see a neat w.
Hite house planted in a pretty situation in a shrubbery or commanding a sunny common or nestling between two hills and to say to himself as the carriage sweeps past its gate I should like to live there I could be very happy in that pretty place Transient visions pass before his mind's eye of dewy summer mornings when the shadows are long on the grass and of bright autumn afternoons when it would be luxury to saunter in the neighbouring lanes; and of frosty winter days when the sun shines in over the laurustinus at the window while the fire burns with a different light from that which it gives in the dull parlours of a city Mr Grey's house had probably been the object of this kind of speculation to one or persons three t.
deerbrook free Deerbrook ePUBHite house planted in a pretty situation in a shrubbery or commanding a sunny common or nestling between two hills and to say to himself as the carriage sweeps past its gate I should like to live there I could be very happy in that pretty place Transient visions pass before his mind's eye of dewy summer mornings when the shadows are long on the grass and of bright autumn afternoons when it would be luxury to saunter in the neighbouring lanes; and of frosty winter days when the sun shines in over the laurustinus at the window while the fire burns with a different light from that which it gives in the dull parlours of a city Mr Grey's house had probably been the object of this kind of speculation to one or persons three t.
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Deerbrook Kindle Ë È Epub rildem.co deerbrook free, Deerbrook ePUBuite a lot like Austen and Eliot with a swirl of Trollope for good measure For the first half of this very long book I thought it might be a perfect hidden treasure from the 19th century I read it on tenterhooks hoping against hope that the novel could sustain that level of excellence The characters the premise and the occasional emergence of a sly Austen ish narrative voice had me dreaming bigUnfortunately though the second half got a bit long and over the top it reminded me of Thomas Hardy The humor sort of evaporated and things became pretty earnestThough I was slightly disappointed there's still a lot to like about this book and it seems very under read right now there are only 8 ratings on goodrea
Deerbrook Kindle Ë È Epub rildem.co deerbrook free, Deerbrook ePUBDeerbrook has been on a shelf in my office at home for decades I finally picked it up this winter It's 500 pages long and a bit of a snoozer at times but I found it fascinating Martineau was a reformer not so much a novelist and she has created 1838 I think? two highly intelligent young women and tracked their fat
Deerbrook Kindle Ë È Epub rildem.co deerbrook free, Deerbrook ePUBIf you're disappointed by my rating think about how much I'm disappointed myself to give only two stars to this classic Deerbrook has been described as the gap between Jane Austen and George Eliot as one of the first Victorian novels of English domestic life as an important novel that must be read by everyone who love 19th century classics even recommended for those who love Elizabeth Gaskell novelsI'm one of those readers and I needed to read this book and I don't regret it despite my rating As a female writer in the Vict
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Deerbrook Kindle Ë È Epub rildem.co deerbrook free, Deerbrook ePUBSweet mother of pearl this was dull overblown plodding plotless verbosity at its worst And I say that as a lover of wordy victoriana like Collins Braddon LeFanu Ouida et al I made it through maybe 6 chapters before throwing in the towelit was hard to note specifics what with my eyes glazing over in a sheen of boredom In an effort to awaken my brain from its slumbering stupor I went back read the Scholarly Intro The editor makes some good points about the MCs which were difficult to keep straight what with the onslaught of Small Town Personages wandering in out of every freakin' scenebut I digress the tricky spot Martineau found herself in re middle class oriented fiction But while I can understand this book's place in the tree of English lit it's still boring as hell These types of Cozy Small Town dramas just don't appeal to me that applies as much to 1830s DEERBROOK as to Jan Karon novels of the 21st century Zzzz She points to Martineau as a
Deerbrook Kindle Ë È Epub rildem.co deerbrook free, Deerbrook ePUBThis was meant to be a buddy read with Buried in Print but I fell at the first hurdle and started skimming after 35 pages I haven’t made it through a Victorian triple decker in well over a decade; just since 2012 I’ve failed to get through three novels by Charles Dickens whom I used to call my favorite author I’m mildly disappointed in myself but may have to accept the change in my reading tastes In my early 20s I loved chunky nineteenth century novels and got my MA in Victorian Literature but nowadays I look at one of these 500 page class
Deerbrook Kindle Ë È Epub rildem.co deerbrook free, Deerbrook ePUBBoth the author and the book were below my radar when a friend recommended it to me as a book to read It was hard to get hold of a paper copy in a sensible edition; Surrey County Libraries don't have a copy the Penguin classics edition