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Автор: Ford Ford Madox
Название: The Shifting of the Fire
ISBN: 9781086244922
Издательство: Independently Published
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1086244923
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 328
Вес: 0.44 кг.
Дата издания: 30.07.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 22.91 x 15.19 x 1.75 cm
Поставляется из: США
Описание: The Shifting Of The Fire, with its charming cover, its perfect type and paper, its accessories of decoration, reminds us of a banquet-table whither, being summoned with great ceremony, we have come with eager expectation. We find the table covered with finest damask and glittering with splendor that delights the eye; the host a man of culture; the menu a triumph; the guests the favored few of mind and beauty. One by one the dishes are placed before us, one by one we taste their contents. They are fair in appearance, yet each one we put aside with disappointment; for they lack that distinctive flavor so pleasantly suggested by their names. So it is with Mr. H. Ford Hueffers story. An attempt to portray various workings of all-conquering love, and of malicious cruelty, it has succeeded merely in revealing to us the authors intentions, which, we will acknowledge, are of the best and most ambitious. The story is this: -A young man of wealth loved a girl and expected soon to marry her. On her nineteenth birthday he made her a present of a little sealed bottle of a most dangerous poison, which he had just succeeded in perfecting after five years of study. The following day he was suddenly called away by the failure of the business house through which he derived his immense income. After he became poor, the girls parents refusing to permit their marriage, she planned to acquire, in the two years before she attained her majority, a large fortune for her lovers sake. To do this, she married a fabulously rich old man, who alluringly mentioned to her that he had but two years to live. To keep her lover ignorant of the whole proceeding, she exacted a promise from him that he would not see her or even inquire after her for two years. He learned of her marriage shortly before the old man came into the neighborhood where he had set up as a physician. It was part of the husbands malice to bring his wife and her early lover together, and watch the display of human suffering. Here the old man died, under circumstances that, the hero thought, pointed to poison-his poison, the properties of which he alone knew, and which he supposed, the tortured girl had administered, being unable longer to endure living with the cruel old man. Even the innocence of her demeanor and the perfect peace of mind that took possession of her did not undeceive him, and soon after, under this belief, he married her, loving her with a passion that would share her moral stain and a tenderness that would repay her for the sacrifice she had so fanatically made for him. Greater love than this is rarely found. It is the burden of Mr. Hueffers tale, but he has failed to make us feel it through his characters, which seem to us unreal and out of drawing. The book is dedicated to the authors grandfather, Ford Maddox Brown, the forerunner of Pre-Raphaelite art in England. It may be this association, or it may be something inherent in the book itself, when all is said in favor of its English, its originality and its finished handling, that makes it remain in the mind as a fine piece of decorative fiction.--The Critic: An Illustrated Monthly Review of Literature, Vol. 22

The Shifting of the Fire, Ford Ford Madox