Résumé
Résumé de Le Masque
À qui s’adresse-t-il ?
For readers who love period melodrama, stories of disguise and social pressure, and early twentieth century New York, with its drawing rooms, uneasy secrets and hidden identities.
De quoi parle ce livre ?
The Mask is a novel by Arthur Hornblow, an American editor, playwright and author who worked in the theatre world of New York in the early twentieth century. It belongs to the popular fiction of the Edwardian years, a time of fast-growing cities, new money and public curiosity about the private lives of the rich.
Books of this kind tend to rest on a simple, strong idea: a person is not what he or she seems, and someone else wants to find out why. You can expect society drawing rooms, uneasy secrets and the pressure of keeping a false face in public. Let us look first at how stories about hidden identity are built.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A mask is a story about trustFree
- 2New York gives the secrets a stage
- 3Deception has a cost for everyone near it
- 4How a theatre man tells a tale
Point clé 1 sur 4
A mask is a story about trust
The title points to the central idea of the book: a face shown to the world that hides another. Tales built on this idea start with a question that the reader holds from the first pages. Who is this person, and what does he or she stand to lose if the truth comes out?
In popular fiction of the Edwardian age, that question usually touches family, money and reputation. A false name or a hidden past can break a marriage or end a career. The reader watches each small slip with growing attention.
This gives the novel its pull. Every conversation carries a second meaning, and every polite word may be a guard against discovery.
That’s 1 of 4 key points.
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