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The Prisoners of Hartling

The Prisoners of Hartling

Beresford, J. D.

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Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 3368912089
ISBN13: 9783368912086
Publisher: Outlook Verlag
Published: Aug 15 2023
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Under No artificial code of honor governs the action of The Prisoners of Hartling. The reader may wonder at our bringing Mr. Beresford into this company. But this is the Beresford of The Jervaise Comedy, not him of Jacob Stahl. He has here written a novel with an idea, rather than a novel of interpretation. He takes a motto from Ecclesiastes, There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun: namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. His is a familiar idea in British fiction, the idea of the enslavement of a large circle of blood-relations to the head of the family by reason of his autocratic powers for the ultimate disposal of that sacred possession, the family property. Mr. Beresford gives the situation a romantic turn by investing his ninety-five year old autocrat with almost uncanny powers of persuasion as well as of direct intimidation. His authority is a bubble; but it remains inviolate for generations, and only the dutch courage of love enables our hero to touch and shatter it. To tell the truth, our hero is not much of a hero, romantically speaking, and we don't quite make out what his Eleanor (who does very well as a heroine) sees in him. So far as the Kenyon tribe at large are concerned, the story ends with a punch worthy of our own most accomplished tale-smiths.

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