The Way of Gentleness: The Story of a Princess - Softcover

The Way of Gentleness

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 258 pages. Cover wornA Princess Dies. A Nation Mourns. A Princess lives again. One humid night tow ards the end of August, a princess, the most famous woman in the world -- let us call her Helena -- dies with her lover in a car crash in a Parisian underpass. At almost the same moment, a second aristocratic Englishwoman -- though one in v ery different material circumstances -- is killed not far away by speeding motor cyclists. In 'another country' (on what appears to be a Greek island) these even ts are observed and their significance recognized. Elizabeth Vickers' novel expl ores, in a highly intelligent, imaginative and sympathetic way, the lives of tho se involved in that terrible accident, the intelligence of the heart possessed b y the woman at their centre and the place she took, and now takes, in the world' s imagination. It suggests that her life may have had a significance more profou nd than it appeared, and that even from tragic events can come good and valuable consequences. The Way of Gentleness is partly based on real events, part novel, part fable. Why was the world so moved, so traumatized, by the death of that Pr incess?;The Way of Gentleness, beautifully written, psychologically convincing a nd, to the end, extraordinarily moving, attempts with tact and affection to say why. Artikel-Nr. 2701h

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