
The Temple of Optimism
Vintage (Publisher)
Published on 5. July 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-09-928352-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 1 mm
Width: 1 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-928352-2 (9780099283522)
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James Fleming | Robert Fleming
The Temple of Optimism
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