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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
218 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1898
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September 22, 2015
An unusually intelligent and perceptive romance featuring various late-Victorian British colonialists in Calcutta falling in love with the wrong people.
Hilda Howe is a travelling actress clearly on the way to the top of her profession before she meets Stephen Arnold, a Catholic priest. Alecia Livingstone, her friend and 'pupil in the arts of life', loves the handsome Duff Lindsey, but he falls for Captain of the Salvation Army, a pious zealot for the cause.
The subtle ironies of the characters' speech and behaviour, the complete lack of emotional cliche or platitude and, of course, the setting, are not too dissimilar to E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. Forster met Duncan once and considered her “clever and odd".
Her heroine, Hilda Howe, is certainly a clever lady, and she certainly makes an odd choice on her path to becoming a star. The ending was a little abrupt, but it was the perfect way in which to crystalise the author's ideas about duty, love and vocational callings both high and low.
A surprising little gem of a novel by a writer I had never before heard of.
Hilda Howe is a travelling actress clearly on the way to the top of her profession before she meets Stephen Arnold, a Catholic priest. Alecia Livingstone, her friend and 'pupil in the arts of life', loves the handsome Duff Lindsey, but he falls for Captain of the Salvation Army, a pious zealot for the cause.
The subtle ironies of the characters' speech and behaviour, the complete lack of emotional cliche or platitude and, of course, the setting, are not too dissimilar to E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. Forster met Duncan once and considered her “clever and odd".
Her heroine, Hilda Howe, is certainly a clever lady, and she certainly makes an odd choice on her path to becoming a star. The ending was a little abrupt, but it was the perfect way in which to crystalise the author's ideas about duty, love and vocational callings both high and low.
A surprising little gem of a novel by a writer I had never before heard of.
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