The Porcelain Dove: Constancy's Reward
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- Synopsis
- The magic of history and the enchantment of an extraordinary story come together in this novel of beguiling romance and dazzling revelation. Eighteenth-century France is the setting--a time and a place where age-old superstitions shadow an age of enlightenment, where the minuet of aristocratic life is deaf to the approaching drumbeats of revolution, where elegance masks depravity and licentiousness makes a mockery of love. Against this background, Berthe Duvet, maid to Adele du Fourchet, later Mme la duchesse de Malvoeux, tells her tale of a doomed society and of a family seeking to break a terrible curse. Unless the House of Malvoeux finds and possesses a fabulous porcelain dove, the noble family faces madness and ruin. Yet even as the quest for the dove begins, the members of the family follow their own destinies and desires. The due retreats to his aviary; the duchesse into parties and flirtations. One son heeds the call of God; another is tempted by Satanic sensuality. And a daughter grows up to be both rebel and savior of the family, fulfilling the quest even as the storm of the French Revolution breaks. Vivid in its re-creation of a vanished age and delightfully iconoclastic in its view of women and history, The Porcelain Dove is a triumph of the imagination. Fantastic in every sense of the word...a skillfully crafted fairy tale. The Porcelain Dove is no dainty vertu but a seductive, sinister bird with razored feathers." A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB SELECTION
- Copyright:
- 1993
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 410 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780525936084
- Publisher:
- Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 09/29/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Cordelia Sherman
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Submitted By:
- Roger Drewicke
- Proofread By:
- Ellen Bartlett
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.