Electricity

Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Product Code: YB00895C
ISBN: 0385255012
Author: Victoria Glendinning
Condition: Collectible Very Good

Price: $29.99

Signed by the author, Victoria Glendinning, on the title page. Book in excellent condition - previous owner's name on cover verso. All detail inquiries welcome.

Whitbread Award-winning biographer Glendinning (Trollope) sets her pensive second novel (after The Grown-Ups) in late-Victorian England, where 18-year-old Charlotte Mortimer escapes from her parents' suffocatingly genteel home and her father's semi-incestuous attentions by marrying Peter Fisher, a proponent of the new science of electrical engineering. In the summer of 1885, the couple leaves London for Hertfordshire, where the poor but ambitious Peter hopes to make his reputation installing a complete electrical lighting system in the mansion of Lord Godwin. Though fond of her serious, intellectual husband, Charlotte finds his lectures on the modern, rational world that electricity will create less compelling than the attractive Godwin's lighthearted enumeration of the natural wonders found on ``the inexhaustibly lovely face of the earth.'' She embarks on an affair with the nobleman, but the disastrous aftermath of the New Year's Eve debut of the electrical system reveals that Godwin is still bound by ancient prejudices; the bold future Peter envisaged-and Charlotte hoped for with somewhat less conviction-has not yet arrived.
Binding
Hardcover
Condition
Collectible Very Good
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Language
English