Mr. Rowl - D. K. Broster

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Résumé :
Mr. Rowl, is witty, suspenseful, and fully enjoyable. A wonderful romance novel that never lets the reader down. Raoul de Sablieres or, as he becomes better known, Mr. Rowl is a French soldier who is captured by the English during the Napoleonic war. During his internment Raule falls desperately in love with an English woman. He escapes and rather than return directly to France he chooses to risk everything for love. ...a wholly charming romance... A French prisoner of war in England seems to present material for pity, for fun, for excitement. Miss Broster uses all these elements in her story... but it is a romance as delicately finished as a piece of Dresden china.-- Westminster Gazett...

Biographie:
Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) was an English novelist best known for her historical fiction, particularly the widely read Jacobite trilogy beginning with The Flight of the Heron. Her work is characterised by careful historical research, moral seriousness, and a strong sense of atmosphere. Writing in the early twentieth century, Broster combined romantic intensity with psychological insight, securing a lasting place among British historical novelists of the interwar period....

Sommaire:
First published in 1927, Mr. Row is a psychological historical novel by D. K. Broster, set amid the moral complexities of eighteenth-century England. Best known for her Jacobite novels, Broster here turns her attention to a subtler study of character and conscience. The enigmatic Mr. Row moves through a society defined by rigid codes of honour, religious tension, and private ambition. Beneath the surface of social propriety lies a drama of inner conflict, restraint, and moral reckoning. Broster's prose is measured and exact, attentive to atmosphere and historical nuance without sacrificing narrative momentum. Mr. Row stands as a compelling example of interwar historical fiction-serious in tone, finely observed, and concerned less with spectacle than with the intricate operations of motive and choice. For readers of early twentieth-century British fiction, the novel offers both historical immersion and psychological depth. ...a wholly charming romance... A French prisoner of war in England seems to present material for pity, for fun, for excitement. Miss Broster uses all these elements in her story... but it is a romance as delicately finished as a piece of Dresden china.-- Westminster Gazett...