The Temple of Optimism

by James Fleming | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0099283522 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Dorothyredboots of York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on 3/25/2010
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Synopsis from Amazon:-
'Famously, Jane Austen created a fictional universe from 'three or four families in a country village'. In this remarkable first novel, James Fleming achieves something very similar: out of the relationships of two men and one woman in Derbyshire in 1788 he has created a fiction that bears comparison with the great novelists of the nineteenth century. Superficially, the plot is simple. Anthony Apreece covets the land of his young neighbour, Edward Horne. Edward covets Daisy, Anthony's wife. On such simple foundations, James Fleming builds a novel of extraordinary richness, at once a wholly convincing representation of an eighteenth-century world and an utterly modern dissection of two of mankind's most powerful passions: greed and love.'

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