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This unforgettable story of undying love combines mysticism, suspense, mystery, and romance into a web of good and evil that stretches from 16th-century England to the present day. Richard Marsdon marries a young American woman named Celia, brings her to live at his English estate, and all seems to be going well. But now Richard has become withdrawn, and Celia is constantly haunted by a vague dread. When she suffers a breakdown and wavers between life and death, a wise doctor realizes that only by forcing Celia to relive her past can he enable her to escape her illness. Celia travels back 400 years in time to her past life as a beautiful but doomed servant. Through her eyes, we see the England of the Tudors, torn by religious strife, and experience all the pageantry, lustiness, and cruelty of the age. As in other historical romance titles by this author, the past comes alive in this flamboyant classic novel.
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The theme of this book is reincarnation, an attempt to show the interplay the law of cause and effect, good and evil, among certain individual souls in two periods of English history.
Green Darkness is the story of a great love, a love in which mysticism, suspense, and mystery form a web of good and evil forces that stretches from Tudor England to the England of the twentieth century.
The marriage of the Englishman Richard Marsdon and his young American wife, Celia, slowly turns tragic as Richard withdraws into himself and Celia suffers a debilitating emotional breakdown. A wise mystic realizes that Celia can escape her past only by reliving it. She journeys back four hundred years to her former life as the servant girl Celia de Bohun during the reign of Edward VI and to her doomed love affair with the chaplain Stephen Marsdon. Although Celia and Stephen can t escape the horrifying consequences of their love, fate (and time) offer them another chance for redemption.
Anya Seton (1904 1990) was the author of many best-selling historical novels, including Katherine, The Winthrop Woman, Avalon, Dragonwyck, Devil Water, and Foxfire. She lived in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Green Darkness is the story of a great love, a love in which mysticism, suspense, and mystery form a web of good and evil forces that stretches from Tudor England to the England of the twentieth century.
The marriage of the Englishman Richard Marsdon and his young American wife, Celia, slowly turns tragic as Richard withdraws into himself and Celia suffers a debilitating emotional breakdown. A wise mystic realizes that Celia can escape her past only by reliving it. She journeys back four hundred years to her former life as the servant girl Celia de Bohun during the reign of Edward VI and to her doomed love affair with the chaplain Stephen Marsdon. Although Celia and Stephen can t escape the horrifying consequences of their love, fate (and time) offer them another chance for redemption.
Anya Seton (1904 1990) was the author of many best-selling historical novels, including Katherine, The Winthrop Woman, Avalon, Dragonwyck, Devil Water, and Foxfire. She lived in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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ANYA SETON (1904 1990) was the author of many best-selling historical novels, including Katherine, Avalon, Dragonwyck, Devil Water, and Foxfire. She lived in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton General Division
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0340159790
- ISBN 13 9780340159798
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages480
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Book Club Edition. For the past several hundred years the chronicle of the Marsdon family has been kept up to date by the head of the house. The vital statistics of births, marriages, and deaths have been duly filled in. An entry dated 1585 lists the death of a younger son, Stephen Marsdon, a Benedictine monk, and speculates on the possible connection between his death and the simultaneous disappearance of a young woman. This question remained unsolved until the year 1968, when Richard Marsdon married and brought his young wife home to Medfield Place. Richard and Celia were very much in love and very happy at first, though there was always the threat of danger somewhere in the background. But now Richard has withdrawn into himself and Celia is bewildered and haunted by a vague dread. Fortunately for Celia, one person senses the danger and is wise enough to understand that the past can reach across centuries to influence the present. When Celia breaks down completely and her reason and life are at stake, Dr. Akananda knows that only by forcing her to relive the past can he enable her to escape it. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Seller Inventory # 001200
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