Frances Hodgson Burnett
Astoria 2010
€ 20.00
comes out for the first time in translating and Clementina Liuzzi Paolo Vallerga this beautiful novel unjustly neglected by an author in Italy and known mostly as a writer for children, which in English are just republishing the novels.
Born in Manchester in 1849 and died in New York in 1924, after a painful family matters (he was orphaned teenage father and emigrated to the U.S. with his family, but soon lost their mother and had to look after the maintenance of the brothers) began to write and managed to earn a living from the proceeds of the publication of his writings and back several times later in England.
keen observer and sophisticated connoisseur of the cultural reality of the country of origin and country of adoption, with insight in this novel portrays the differences economic and social England and the United States from the early twentieth century, tells the story of the exchange between British noble titles and enormous wealth Americans who, thanks to shrewd marriage contracts, pop up the fortunes of great estates in England ruin.
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