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| Title | : | A Long Fatal Love Chase |
| Author | : | Louisa May Alcott |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 356 pages |
| Published | : | December 2nd 1996 by Dell (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Romance. Gothic |
Louisa May Alcott
Paperback | Pages: 356 pages Rating: 3.65 | 5745 Users | 873 Reviews
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"I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom," cries Rosamond Vivian to her callous grandfather. A brooding stranger seduces her from the remote island onto his yacht. Trapped in a web of intrigue, cruelty, and deceit, she flees to Italy, France, Germany, from Paris garret to mental asylum, from convent to chateau - stalked by obsessed Phillip Tempest. Two years before Little Women, serialized in a magazine under the alias A.M. Barnard in 1866, this was buried among the author's papers over a century.
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| Original Title: | A Long Fatal Love Chase |
| ISBN: | 0440223016 (ISBN13: 9780440223016) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.65 From 5745 Users | 873 ReviewsArticle Containing Books A Long Fatal Love Chase
This book was fascinating although I have to admit that part of the fascination was reading an Alcott novel that was such a polar opposite from those I'm familiar with. This story has only recently been published. Originally considered too sensational, Alcott's manuscript was basically undiscovered until recently. According to the editor, she had published other thrillers but didn't become that well known as an author until the publishing of Little Women. The plot deals with several heavy issues
Delightfully, hilariously sensational. :) Recommend for those in the mood for an old fashioned Gothic read.
This book is different from anything else Alcott has written (that I have read). It is much darker in tone and action. It is the story of a young woman -unloved, innocent, and lovely- who falls in love with an older, more experienced man. Time reveals him to be a villian, unworthy of her love and companionship, and she leaves him. Thus begins the long fatal love chase. I really enjoy the evolution of Rosamund's character. She is always strong-minded, with a determination to do right. One of my
I really enjoyed a Long Fatal Love Chase. You can tell it is the same author of Little Women. At the beginning on one chapter, the description of the carriage going down the street at Nice is exactly idential of the description of when Laurie first appears at Nice spotting Amy in her carriage in Little Women. The main character Rose, has the description of Amy but the free will and determination of Joe. It also somewhat reminds me of Jane Eyre with the determined, mysterious, powerful, older
An enjoyable and suspenseful adventure story to the last page. The characters are richly portrayed with their needs and obsessions driving the narrative.
In attempting to review a book one did not choose but which was chosen by a book discussion group, there would seem to be different variables at play. Not having read Louisa May Alcott's novel, Little Women, I was initially somewhat taken aback by the endpaper notes detailing the author's rediscovered book, A Long Fatal Love Chase, words about "a passionate cry from a beautiful, impetuous young woman marked by obsessional love to a man named Philip Tempest", prose that caused the novel to seem
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