Challenge to Venus - Morgan Charles
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Challenge to Venus has its settings in the ancient hill-town of Varenna in Italy in 1957 when the book was first published. Against the background of a closely knit Italian society, into which Fiammeta Alerani was born, it tells the story of her encounter with a visiting Englishman; of their conflict of temperament, tradition and upbringing; of their surrender to each other, and of the diverging loves which are the result of that experience. Fiammeta, like Psyche who was called a rival of Venus, has extreme beauty. In spite of the heat of her blood, it is in her proud nature to believe that she is the mistress of her own impulse and exempt from the consequences of human frailty, as a goddess might be. The Englishman has a different pride -the pride of being 'ordinary', of never allowing himself to 'go in off the deep end', and of supposing that by this means he can make life conform to design. With unstressed irony, the lovers are presented neither as hero and heroine to be actually uncritically admired nor a...
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2008 Uitgever: Jorge Pinto Books 316 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0980114799 ISBN-13: 9780980114799Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Boek in goede staat, wat lichte sporen van gebruik aan de kaft en hoekjes. [Titel: Challenge to Venus]
