by Warwick Collins · Phoenix · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780753809884
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«The Marriage of Souls» is the historical novel by Warwick Collins, published by Phoenix in paperback (496 pages, in English).
Sequel to «The Rationalist», it follows Silas Grange, whose nervous breakdown after the departure of the mysterious Mrs Quill has left him in the care of his colleague Hargood. Set in Lymington in the 1790s, it combines a disturbing love story with the philosophical debate of the era.
Second instalment of the «Silas Grange» series. The original appeared in 1999 and this edition was published in March 2000.
For readers of historical fiction set in the eighteenth century and those who have already read «The Rationalist».
Warwick Collins was a British novelist, screenwriter, yacht designer, and evolutionary theorist. Collins was born in Johannesburg to English-speaking parents. His father, Robin Collins, was a novelist who wrote under the nom-de-plume Robin Cranford. Robin Collins's novels were written from a liberal perspective and one of them, My City Fears Tomorrow, was banned by the South African apartheid regime. When Collins was eleven, his family moved to England, and Collins entered The King's School, Canterbury. He continued his education at the University of Sussex, where he read Biology. He lived for many years in the Hampshire town of Lymington where he set two of his novels.
