Sylvia's Lovers

Elizabeth Gaskell’s classic Victorian novel (1810–1865) depicts a love triangle set against a seaside English town during the tumultuous era of the Napoleonic Wars. The lives and dreams of the beautiful Sylvia and her two lovers shatter amid the chaos of “big history.” A deep and precise analysis of unrequited love and the unbearable chasm between duty and desire. Published in Russian for the first time.