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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aPidgin, Charles Felton,
_d1844-1923
245 1 4 _aThe Corsican Lovers
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2022-02-16
508 _aSteve Mattern, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"The Corsican Lovers" by Charles Felton Pidgin is a historical novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers around the passionate and tumultuous lives of the Batistelli family, particularly focusing on Vivienne, a young woman grappling with the demands of a loveless marriage arranged by her brother Pascal, as she yearns for autonomy and true love amidst the shadow of her father’s vengeful legacy. At the start of the novel, we are introduced to Vivienne Batistelli, who fiercely opposes her brother Pascal's insistence that she marry Count Mont d'Oro's son, Napier. Vivienne is haunted by the memory of her father’s murder, and as she asserts her refusal to enter into a loveless union meant to appease family honor, her determination becomes palpable. The conflict escalates as Pascal reveals that their father's dying wish was for Vivienne to marry Napier, invoking a familial vendetta that looms over their lives. This opening sets the stage for not only personal dilemmas of love and duty but also a broader commentary on the intricacies of honor, revenge, and the expectations placed on women within their family and society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited States: Grosset & Dunlap, 1906
653 _aCorsica (France) -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/corsicanloversst00pidgiala/page/n3/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67412
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