Diana Tempest, Volume Iii

By Mary Cholmondeley

Book Overview

A stirring, morally attentive panorama of a closing century. Diana Tempest opens with intimate immediacy and lingers with the quiet radiance of a classic British fiction that asks big questions about duty, desire, and society. This volume distills Mary Cholmondeley's late nineteenth-century English gentry setting into a complete Victorian novel that reads with reader-friendly readability while inviting fresh academic consideration. The narrative threads-marriage and society, family dynamics, and a nuanced critique of gender roles-are rendered with clarity and compassion, offering both engrossing plot and room for thoughtful reflection. The book sits firmly within the Victorian social novel tradition, yet its moral landscapes feel urgent and contemporary, inviting diverse readers to engage with its complex characters and social arenas. Diana Tempest holds historical significance as a touching artefact from a changing era, where private longing and public expectation collide. It rewards casual readers with absorbing storytelling and rewards scholars with fertile material for study of period ideas and class codes. For collectors, this edition is a cultural treasure: a thoughtfully restored, out of print for decades volume that widens access to a landmark work and preserves its integrity for future generations. Alpha Editions presents this illustrated edition as more than a reprint-an enduring, essential keepsake for both the casual reader and the library of classic british fiction. This is a complete victorian novel for modern shelves and scholarly inquiry alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354847935
• ISBN13: 9789354847936
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"