Maurice Traherne is wrongly accused of fraud and gambling and must play a careful hand if he is to win his love, Octavia, from the grasp of other, less honorable men and retain the trust of those who had faith in him. Traherne is temporarily crippled saving the life of his well-born friend, Jaspar. Thus, Jaspar is assured of inheriting his father's estate, but it is expected that Traherne will inherit great wealth as gratitude for saving the heir. But--surprise!--on the death of Jaspar's father all are shocked to learn that Traherne has been disinherited: the will has been changed at the last minute and only the suffering Traherne knows why but won't tell and then he falls in love with Jaspar's sister, the fair Octavia. However, Octavia is forbidden to marry, as Traherne is penniless.
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Not A Great Ghost Story or Christmas Story,
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This review is from: Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story (Hardcover)
I read Alcott's "The Abbot's Ghos"t hoping it would be a fun and scary Victorian ghost story centered around Christmas (the subtitle is "A Christmas Story"). It falls far short of the best of the genre, authors of which include the most wonderful Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, as well as Dinah Mulock Craik, Rhoda Broughton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Charlotte Riddell. The Abbot's Ghost contains all the necessary elements: a grand gathering at an ancient estate in England, a disinherited heir, a titled heir (but does he deserve the title?), a scheming beauty, an innocent beauty, a crippled man in need of a miracle (guess what?), a narrow-minded matriarch, and an army man or two. Oh yes, and a SECRET and, of course, a ghost. But there is nothing much more, other than flat physical descriptions, inert characters, predictable plot lines, and a painfully drawn moral conclusion.
Louisa May Alcott's life is fascinating to me; fascinating in how rich her experiences were as the daughter of a prominent transcendentalist and with friends like Hawthorne and Thoreau, and in the contrasting flatness of her work. Her life was interesting but her writing is damn boring.My advice: read about Alcott's life, for example in the book "Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father", by John Matteson, and let her books stay in the library, warming the shelves. FOR more, go to [...]
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