Publication

1998 - Back Bay Books, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

116,750 words, Guess

Page Count

467 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing6923
  • Goodreads760658

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6056.O85 F7 1998

Description

By the author of *The Collector* and *The Magus*, a haunting love story of the Victorian era. Over one year on the N.Y. Times Bestseller List and an international bestseller. "Filled with enchanting mysteries, charged with erotic possibilities . . —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, N.Y. Times

First Sentence

AN easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay- Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg - and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867.

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