Synopsis
This masterpiece of short fiction, narrated in first-person by a woman remembering a summer in her girlhood, is both a ghost story and a Kunstlerroman (novel of the artist's life) in miniature, in which Oliphant explores the possibilities and conflicts of a life dedicated to writing.
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About the Author
Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) published her first novel at twenty-one, and over the next five decades developed a career as one of Victorian Britain's most versatile and prolific writers. Widowed at thirty, she supported her three small children and soon her older brothers, a nephew, and nieces by publishing novels, essays, biographies, translations, reviews, and what she called stories of the seen and unseen, including THE LIBRARY WINDOW.
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The big diamond blazed underneath in the hollow of her hand, like some dangerous thing hiding and sending out darts of light. The hand, which seemed to come almost to a point, with this strange ornament underneath, clutched at my half-terrified imagination . . . I felt as if it might clutch me with sharp claws, and the lurking, dazzling creature bite--with a sting that would go to the heart.
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University of Tampa Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 1597320129
ISBN 13: 9781597320122
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