书城英文图书Sylvia's Lovers(V) 希尔维亚的情人(英文版)
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Sylvia's Lovers(V) 希尔维亚的情人(英文版)

状态:连载作者:(英)E.C. Gaskell
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Sylvia's Lovers is an 1863 novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell. The heroine, Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become secretly engaged. But Kinraid is forcibly enlisted in the Royal Navy by a press gang. Philip knows pgsk.com of kindness, he does not tell Sylvia of the incident nor deliver her Charlie's parting message. Believing her lover is dead, Sylvia eventually marries Philip. Later, Kinraid reappears, When Sylvia is informed by Kinraid that Philip knew everything, she is pgsk.com leaves her in despair and joins the army under a pseudonym, and ends up fighting in the Napoleonic wars, where he saves Kinraid's life. At last, when Sylvia realizes she is actually in love with Philip, he horribly disfigured by a shipboard explosion, then fatally injured while saving their daughter.