Paperback. In this Victorian tale, a young woman recuperating at her aunts house in a Scottish town is spending a good deal of time looking out at the world through an upstairs window. Across the way is a university library; one of its windows holds particular interestbut the things she sees there at one moment are gone the next. Is what she has seen real, or a figment of her adolescent imagination?In addition to an illuminating introduction, this edition includes a variety of background materials that help to set this extraordinary work of fiction in its literary and historical context. The only available edition available of a gripping exploration of the border between our perceptions and our imaginings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: The Library Window (Paperback)
Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd, Peterborough
Publication Date: 2019
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1554814189
ISBN 13: 9781554814183
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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In this Victorian tale, a young woman recuperating at her aunt’s house in a Scottish town is spending a good deal of time looking out at the world through an upstairs window. Across the way is a university library; one of its windows holds particular interest―but the things she sees there at one moment are gone the next. Is what she has seen real, or a figment of her adolescent imagination?

In addition to an illuminating introduction, this edition includes a variety of background materials that help to set this extraordinary work of fiction in its literary and historical context.

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Annmarie Drury is Associate Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York; her other books include Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2015).

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