Shrewsbury: A Romance, Volums 1-2Longmans, Green and Company, 1898 - 410 pàgines Story of Sir John Fenwick's Jacobite plot, 1688-1713. |
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Pàgina 390 - The book is not only good literature, It is a * rattling good story,' instinct with the spirit of true adventure and stirring emotion. Of love and peril, intrigue and fighting, there is plenty, and many scenes could not have been bettered.
Pàgina 390 - We hardly know whether to call this latest work of Stanley J. Weyman a historical lomance or a story of adventure. It has all the interesting, fascinating and thrilling characteristics of both. The scene is in France, and the time is that fateful eventful one which culminated in Henry of Navarre becoming king. Naturally it is a story of plots and intrigue, of danger and of the grand passion, abounding in intense dramatic scenes and most interestmg situations. It is a romance which will rank among...
Pàgina 391 - ... highest degree, the art which instinctively divines the secret, the soul of the story which he tells, and the rarer art, if it be not the artlessness, which makes it as real and as inevitable as life itself. His characters are alive, human, unforgetable, resembling in this...
Pàgina 390 - It will be read and then re-read for the mere pleasure its reading gives. The subtle charm of it is not in merely transporting the nineteenth-century reader to the sixteenth, that he may see life as it was then, but in transforming him into a sixteenth-century man, thinking its thoughts, and living its life in perfect touch and sympathy ... it carries the reader out of his present life, giving him a new and totally different existence that rests and refreshes him.
Pàgina 387 - The scene is laid alternately in England, the Netherlands, and the Rhenish Palatinate; the times are those of Bloody Mary. Bishop Gardiner plays a leading part in this romance, which presents in good shape the manners and customs of the period. It is useless dividing the story into arbitrary chapters, for they will not serve to prevent the reader from 'devouring' the ' Story ot Francis Cludde,' from the stormy beginning to its peaceful end in the manor-house at Coton End.
Pàgina 388 - Its interest never flags, for his resource is rich, and it is, moreover, the kind of a story that one cannot plainly see the end of from Chapter I. ... the story reveals a knowledge of French character and French landscape that was surely never acquired at second hand. The beginning is wonderfully interesting.
Pàgina 388 - As perfect a novel of the new school of fiction as ' Ivanhoe ' or ' Henry Esmond ' was of theirs. Each later story has shown a marked advance in strength and treatment, and in the last Mr. Weyman . . . demonstrates that he has no superior among living novelists. . . . There are but two characters in the...
Pàgina 390 - ... moment of the story. The spirit of adventure pervades the whole from beginning to end. . . . It may be said that the narration is a delightful love story. The interest of the reader is constantly excited by the development of unexpected turns in the relation of the principal lovers. The romance lies against a background of history truly painted. . . . Th...
Pàgina 390 - The descriptions of the court life of the period and of the factional strifes, divisions, hatreds of the age, are fine. . . . This story of those times is worthy of a very high place among historical novels of recent years."— PUBLIC OPINION.
Pàgina 391 - No one of Mr. Weyman's books is better than * My Lady Rotha ' unless it be ' Under the Red Robe/ and those who have learned to like his stories of the old days when might made right will cppreciate it thoroughly. It is a good book to read and read again.