The Glass-Blowers (VMC)
The Glass-Blowers Daphne du Maurier's warm, human saga of a family of craftsmen in 18th century France - with the violence and terror of the Revolution as a clamouring background against which their loves and their hopes are played out. Full description
The Glass-Blowers Daphne du Maurier's warm, human saga of a family of craftsmen in 18th century France - with the violence and terror of the Revolution as a clamouring background against which their loves and their hopes are played out. Full description
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781844080656 (184408065X)
ASIN: 184408065X
Publish date: 2004-06-03
Publisher: Virago
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Modern Classics,
France,
European History,
Gothic,
French Revolution,
Fiction,
Historical
I found this historical fiction based on du Mauriers French ancestors at the time of the French Revolution a flat, bland, albeit well written, recitation of what happened with very little of the personal about it, or any sense of people or place. It was less than engaging, hard to care about the ch...
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