The Seduction of Victor H.
By:M. J. Rose
Published on 2013-05-07 by Simon and Schuster
From the author of The Book of Lost Fragrances comes a hauntingly evocative and suspenseful novel about a grieving woman who discovers the long-lost letters of novelist Victor Hugo, awakening a mystery that spans centuries. A spellbinding gothic tale about Victor Hugo’s long-buried secrets and the power of a lover that never dies… Grieving his daughter’s death, Victor Hugo initiated séances from his home on the Isle of Jersey in order to reestablish contact with her. In the process, he claimed to have communed with Plato, Shakespeare, Dante- and even the devil himself. Hugo’s transcriptions of these conversations have all been published. Or so it has been believed… A hundred years later, recovering from her own great loss, mythologist Jac L’Etoile is invited to Jersey to uncover a secret about the island’s mysterious Celtic roots. She’s greeted by Neolithic monuments, medieval castles, and hidden caves. But the man who has invited her there, a troubled soul named Theo Gaspard, hopes she’ll help him discover something quite different…something that will threaten their sanity and put their very lives at stake.
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This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to learn is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to start with, if it had been designed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not just a play. On top of that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for every single character for a couple pages). None folks had browse the play before. None people wanted to learn it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared as if they weren't paying attention. All of this compounded to make me more or less hate reading classics for something such as 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And it also really can fuck up your GPA. 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I love both you and your useless learning in similes that can not approach your bilious hate as part of your heart. You might be quarry, as well as I am yours. Figuratively speaking, connected with course. Now and here is this review: Macbeth by Bill Shakespeare is a good literary do the job inside the Uk vocabulary, along with anyone who disagrees is definitely an asshole and a dumbhead.
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