Sylvia's Lovers (Paperback, Revised)

Elizabeth Gaskell called Sylvia's Lovers (1863) 'the saddest story I ever wrote', and in it she deals profoundly with themes of unrequited love, jealousy and individual choice. In the 1790s the Yorkshire seaside town of Monkshaven is disturbed by the arrival of the press-gang who come to seize and ship their captives abroad to fight in the Napoleonic Wars. In this atmosphere of unease Sylvia's Lovers portrays the rivalries of two men, the sober tradesman Philip Hepburn, who has been devoted to his cousin Sylvia since her childhood, and the whale-ship harpooner Charley Kinraid who is gallant and charming with a reputation as a 'light-of-love' with women. Sylvia's tragedy, vividly and movingly dramatized, is to love one of these men, but to marry the other. Shirley Foster provides an introduction to this Penguin Classics edition, together with notes and appendices on the novel's historical sources and text.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1996
First published:	June 1997
Authors:	Elizabeth Gaskell
Editors:	Shirley Foster
Introduction by:	Shirley Foster
Notes by:	Shirley Foster
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	528
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-043422-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	0-14-043422-4
Barcode:	9780140434224

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