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The Maiden Faust
Alchemy is the leitmotif of this gripping novel, set against a richly authentic backdrop of 1840s Cambridge. The Maiden Faust presents a new and startlingly original take on the Faust legend made famous by Marlowe, Goethe and Mann.
In this forceful, female-centred, narrative the ageing scholar Faust of the Gothic myth is replaced by Philippa Austen, a Cambridge undergraduate in an alternative Victorian England where alchemy holds sway. After Philippa encounters the beautiful but unearthly Martha Stowfell, she strikes a bargain to unpick the threads of her dark history - but at what cost?
The reader has to wait to the large page to fully decode the plot of this extraordinary piece of fiction.
In this forceful, female-centred, narrative the ageing scholar Faust of the Gothic myth is replaced by Philippa Austen, a Cambridge undergraduate in an alternative Victorian England where alchemy holds sway. After Philippa encounters the beautiful but unearthly Martha Stowfell, she strikes a bargain to unpick the threads of her dark history - but at what cost?
The reader has to wait to the large page to fully decode the plot of this extraordinary piece of fiction.
- Forfatter
- Conor Farrington
- ISBN
- 9781915530851
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Vekt
- 310 gram
- Utgivelsesdato
- 26.6.2025
- Forlag
- Galileo Publishers
- Antall sider
- 356
