Greatheart
Ethel M. Dell
Belletristik / Historische Romane und Erzählungen
Beschreibung
Greatheart is a romance novel by Ethel M. Dell. Dell was a British writer of short stories and romantic novels. A classic story of "boy meets girl" where she is rescued from the tyrannical clenches of her mother and an abusive background. Excerpt: "Through all the painful hours of the long, long night and the eventless day, while the mad throng rushed onward like a great river toward eternity's ocean, this thought was uppermost in my mind. I tried to get the physician to promise that he would not expose me, and show the world what a hollow mockery I had been, and how I had deceived my best friends. I told him the whole truth, and asked him to spare my family the humiliation of knowing that though I might have led a blameless life, my sunny exterior was only a thin covering for bran and shorts and middlings, cracked wheat and pearl barley."
Kundenbewertungen
British author, Redemption themes, Emotional turmoil, Early 20th century, Heroine rescue, Victorian romance, Romantic fiction, Love triangle, Family secrets, Character-driven narrative