The Temple of Optimism

James Fleming · Robert Fleming

des. del 2010 · Random House

Sobre aquest llibre

Famously, Jane Austen created a fictional universe for 'three or four families in a country village'. In this remarkable first novel James Fleming achieves something very similar: out of the relationships of two men and one woman in Derbyshire in 1788 he has created a fiction that bears comparison with the great novelists of the nineteenth century.Anthony Apreece covets the land of his young neighbour, Edward Horne. Edward covets Daisy, Anthony's wife. On such simple foundations, James Fleming builds a novel of extraordinary richness, at once a wholly convincing representation of an eighteenth-century world and an utterly modern dissection of two of mankind's most powerful passions: greed and love

Sobre l'autor

James Fleming was born in 1944, and has been variously an accountant, breeds sheep and cattle, and is at work on his new novel.