Mary Reilly

 von Valerie Martin

Schlagworte:

• Englische belletristik |
• Englisch |
• Viktorianische zeit

Katalogkarte (ausblenden) :

R 82
Martin, Valerie:
Mary Reilly / Valerie Martin. - London : Corgi Books, 1996. - 221 S.

ISBN 9780552996143  Buch kt.

ENGLISCHE BELLETRISTIK ; ENGLISCH ; VIKTORIANISCHE ZEIT

Mary Reilly is a young Victorian housemaid in the employ of an elderly bachelor. When her master asks her about the strange scars on her hands and neck, she reveals she was tortured as a child by her alcoholic father. This revelation is the beginning of regular conversations between master and servant, conversations which Mary records each night in her journal.

But strange things begin to happen in the household. Her master is often ill or locked away in his laboratory for days on end. Soon Mary is drawn into his dark world and slowly begins to understand her employer´s terrible secret...