Beyond The Rocks - Glyn, Elinor

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Résumé :
A hook: a forbidden passion meets social restraint in a city where reputation is currency and desire must be carefully weighed. Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story revives Elinor Glyn's quintessential classic romance novel for modern readers, offering a melodramatic romance fiction that probes love triangles, gender and desire, and the pressures of postwar society. Set within a sharp, metropolitan Britain, the story is both intimate and observant, capturing the tensions of modern romance with a clarity that resonates with today's romance fiction fans and classic literature readers alike. It is more than a tale of hearts and headlines...

Biographie:
Elinor Glyn was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialized in love fiction, which was deemed scandalous at the time, yet her works are very moderate by contemporary standards. She popularized the concept of the it-girl and had a huge impact on early 20th-century popular culture, maybe even on the careers of prominent Hollywood stars like Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, and, most notably, Clara Bow. Elinor Sutherland was born on October 17, 1864, in St Helier, Jersey, in the Channel Islands. She was the younger daughter of Douglas Sutherland (1838-1865), a civil engineer of Scottish heritage, and his wife Elinor Saunders (1841-1937), from an Anglo-French family who had established in Canada. Her father was claimed to be linked to the Lords of Duffus. Her father died when she was two months old, and her mother went to the parental home in Guelph, Upper Canada, British North America (now Ontario), with her two daughters. Elinor was taught here by her grandmother, Lucy Anne Saunders, the daughter of Sir Richard Willcocks, an early Irish police magistrate who assisted in the suppression of the Emmet Rising in 1803....

Sommaire:
it's a portrait of a generation negotiating reputation, ambition, and yearning on the cusp of social change. This new Alpha Editions edition honours the work's literary and historical significance, honouring its place in the silent film era's adaptations and the early film romance genre that helped shape twentieth century romance satire. Readers will recognise its enduring appeal, whether approaching it as a casual, page-turning romance or as a work of cultural memory that informs film, theatre, and literature. Selling points: Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. A treasure for both casual readers and discerning collectors, this edition invites a fresh engagement with a beloved pillar of British metropolitan romance....