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Readers who love Victorian romance, grand tours of Italy and Malta, storytellers who chat with the reader, and tales of family pride tested by the heart. It suits anyone who enjoys ghost stories and travel scenes.
Che cos’è questo libro
A Love Story is a Victorian novel by William Harvey Christie. It follows Sir Henry Delmé from an English country mansion to Malta, Italy and beyond. A chatty narrator talks to you throughout, praising dinners and punch and setting down songs and ghost tales. Underneath runs one plain question. What does a man owe to duty, and what does he owe to love? The answer begins at Delmé Park.
In questo riassunto
- 1Duty hardens into ambition at DelméFree
- 2A fête and a hidden letter
- 3A night walk and a hasty departure
- 4Malta and the young Greek
- 5Delancey's wound and a night of madness
- 6Marriage and the first voyage
- 7A ghost story and a tour of Italy
- 8Rome, Julia's fortune, and what the book is about
Punto chiave 1 di 8
Duty hardens into ambition at Delmé
The story opens at Delmé Park, a sprawling mansion home to an old Norman line with only three members left. Sir Henry is the baronet, his brother George is a lieutenant in Malta, and Emily is the youngest.
Sir Henry inherited the title at fifteen and found the estates deep in debt. He paid even debts the law did not demand and cleared the family fortune.
But his wish to restore the family grew into a burning wish to raise it higher. He decides to marry for rank and honors and refuses to hear the softer feelings of the heart. The narrator warns that the heart is like a clear lake, and once it is muddied the lovely image is gone for good.
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Questions about Una storia d'amore
What is A Love Story by William Harvey Christie about?
It follows Sir Henry Delmé, a proud English baronet bent on raising his family. A call from Malta draws him to his sick brother George, who loves a young Greek girl, and the story travels through Italy and beyond.
Who is Acmé in A Love Story?
Acmé Frascati is a young Greek orphan living in Malta. She nurses George Delmé through a long illness and becomes his wife, and she brings warmth and music to the brothers' travels.
Where does the story take place?
It begins at the country house of Delmé Park and in Leamington, then moves to Malta, Palermo, Naples, Rome, Florence, Venice, the Tyrol and Bavaria, and later Australia, with a return to England.
When was A Love Story written and is it a true story?
It is a Victorian novel by William Harvey Christie, who died in 1873.
What is the main message of A Love Story?
The book weighs family pride and ambition against real affection. It suggests that rank and duty matter less than loyalty, kindness and love, and that grief slowly changes a person's view of what counts.