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The work combines elements of drama, eroticism, and social criticism, set in a summer that the main characters will remember forever.
A historical novel by August Šenoa, published in Vijenac in 1877 and as a book in 1878. The novel is subtitled "Historical Narrative of the 16th Century", so it can be viewed as a historical monograph in the form of a novel.
The narrative time that Fowles writes about is the reign of Queen Victoria, a time of comfortable middle-class life in which religious postulates and scientific progress were believed in almost equal measure.
In this extraordinary, carefully crafted story, every word is a possible clue, and the characters are so engaged that the reader must join in trying to help them solve the puzzle.
The picture of Katie and David Carr's marriage, sketched with Nick Hornby's mercilessly witty strokes, is more like a still life peeking out from a toadstool.
These stories should be read as true fiction, but without forgetting the wall of patriarchal norms of society that always threatens to challenge it.