La Vendée
Anthony Trollope
Subjects: Love stories, Vendée (France) -- Fiction, War stories, Historical fiction, France -- History -- Wars of the Vendée, 1793-1832 -- Fiction, PR, I
Downloads: 541
Subjects: Love stories, Vendée (France) -- Fiction, War stories, Historical fiction, France -- History -- Wars of the Vendée, 1793-1832 -- Fiction, PR, I
Downloads: 541
Trollope's third novel, and his only excursion into historical fiction, takes place during the French Revolution. Agatha de Larochejacquelin has two suitors: an aristocrat and a revolutionary peasant leader. The latter, ironically, is killed while fighting for the very restructuring of society that would have permitted him to marry an upper-class woman like Agatha. In this uncharacteristically violent novel, Trollope reveals more sympathy with the Royalist cause than with the revolutionaries.
Gutenberg
