A Beleaguered City A Beleaguered City

A Beleaguered City

Publisher Description

This is one of only two supernatural novels by prolific nineteenth-century writer Margaret Oliphant. Set in the town of Semur, in the Bourgogne region of France, it is a powerful, sombre fantasy relating the events that unfold after the settlement is besieged by the dead. A departure from her ubiquitous realistic tales of everyday middle-class Victorian life, the novel is presumably inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem of the same name, itself widely available online and well worth seeking out.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1897
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
191
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
113.2
KB

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