19. Jahrhundert

Who killed the Reverend Horatio Howell, a minister from Delaware Water Gap and chaplain to the 90th Pennsylvania Regiment, during the Battle of Gettysburg? Why would a Confederate soldier intentionally shoot a Union chaplain? Three veterans of the 90th Pennsylvania, all survivors of the battle, travel to Gettysburg in 1913 for the 50th reunion of that three-day fight. Will they meet the rebel who felled their beloved chaplain, and if they do, how will they react?

Just one night changed their lives... When Spanish émigré Eva Galante meets French aristocrat Lucien Capet, it's love at first sight. But their meeting isn't by chance, and Eva isn't who Lucien believed her to be. After a whirlwind romance and a flight to Gretna Green, Lucien learns the truth about what loving Eva could cost him.<BR>A single betrayal tore them apart...Four years later, Eva is London's most sought-after modiste and Lucien is now Marquis de Touraine, about to become engaged to Eva's best client-as long as he's not still married to Eva! Confronting their past means a journey across England to the Scottish border. With each mile, memories are raised, and passions reignited, sparking one last night together. Or so they think...<BR>Can a second chance reunite them forever?But the past isn't ready to give up its secrets just yet. As Lucien and Eva confront an old foe, new truths are revealed... and a deeper understanding of each other that love-at-first-sight never gave them. Despite the betrayals of the past, feelings are rekindled that were never quite extinguished. Will one last secret pull them apart-or bind them together forever?

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'<BR><BR>'One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia Woolf<BR><BR>George Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.<BR><BR>Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROSEMARY ASHTON