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In Maremma (Valancourt Classics)

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If you are a lover of those "big, baggy monsters" also known as the Victorian Novel, you're in for a treat. Ouida, a great literary success in her time, is not much read or taught these days. But this novel is tragic, beautiful, and positively uncanny. If you love Emily Bronte, this novel is for you. Anyone who frequently teaches 19th century fiction, as I do, would do well to switch out a more well known novel from the syllabus, and include _In Maremma_ instead, for a change of pace.

This particular edition is extremely well edited, and accurate and succinct footnotes.

In Maremma is just waiting to be discovered by a film director. The novel is dark, haunting, and beautiful, full of descriptions of the plant and animal life of coastal Italy. But what a sad work. Once you have met Musa, you will never forget her. If you enjoy Tess of the D'Urbevilles, then you must read In Maremma.