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Author : E. L. Voynich
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
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Author : Ethel L Voynich
language : en
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Release Date : 2022-10-11
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The Gadfly is a novel by Irish-born British writer Ethel Voynich, published in 1897 (United States, June; Great Britain, September of the same year), set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centres on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love, Gemma, simultaneously runs through the story. It is a tale of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism. The book, set during the Italian Risorgimento, is primarily concerned with the culture of revolution and revolutionaries. Arthur, the eponymous Gadfly, embodies the tragic Romantic hero, who comes of age and returns from abandonment to discover his true state in the world and fight against the injustices of the current one. The landscape of Italy, in particular the Alps, is a pervading focus of the book, with its often lush descriptions of scenery conveying the thoughts and moods of characters. With the central theme of the book being the nature of a true revolutionary, the reflections on religion and rebellion proved to be ideologically suitable and successful. The Gadfly was exceptionally popular in the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and Iran, exerting a large cultural influence. In the Soviet Union, The Gadfly was compulsory reading and the top best seller; indeed, by the time of Voynich's death, The Gadfly is estimated to have sold 2,500,000 copies in the Soviet Union alone. Voynich was unaware of the novel's popularity, and did not receive royalties, until visited by a diplomat in 1955. In China, several publishers translated the book, and one of them (China Youth Press) sold more than 2,050,000 copies. It was banned, however, after the Sino-Soviet split. Irish writer Peadar O'Donnell recalls the novel's popularity among Republican prisoners in Mountjoy Prison during the Irish Civil War. The Russian composer Mikhail Zhukov turned the book into an opera The Gadfly (Овод, 1928). In 1955, the Soviet director Aleksandr Faintsimmer adapted the novel into a film of the same title (Russian: Ovod) for which Dmitri Shostakovich wrote the score. The Gadfly Suite is an arrangement of selections from Shostakovich's score by the composer Levon Atovmian. A second opera The Gadfly was composed by Soviet composer Antonio Spadavecchia. On the other hand, in Italy, where the plot takes place during the Italian Unification, the novel is totally neglected: it was translated into Italian as late as in 1956 and was never reprinted: Il figlio del cardinale (literally, The Son of the Cardinal). A new edition, carrying the same title, came out in 2013. (wikipedia.org)
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Author : Ethel Lilian Voynich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
The Gadfly written by Ethel Lilian Voynich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Communism categories.
"The Gadfly is a novel by Irish-born British writer Ethel Voynich, published in 1897 ... set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centres on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love, Gemma, simultaneously runs through the story. It is a tale of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism ... Arthur Burton, an English Catholic, travels to Italy to study to be a priest. He discovers radical ideas, renounces Catholicism, fakes his death and leaves Italy. While away he suffers great hardship, but returns with renewed revolutionary fervour. He becomes a journalist, expounding radical ideas in brilliant satirical tracts published under the pseudonym "the gadfly". The local authorities are soon dedicated to capturing him. Gemma, his lover, and Padre Montanelli, his Priest (and also secretly his biological father), show various forms of love via their tragic relations with the focal character of Arthur: religious, romantic, and family. The story compares these emotions to those Arthur experiences as a revolutionary, particularly drawing on the relationship between religious and revolutionary feelings. This is especially explicit at the climax of the book, where sacred descriptions intertwine with reflections on the Gadfly's fate"--From Wikipedia, viewed November 10, 2023.
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Author : E. Voynich
language : en
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Release Date : 2014-08-20
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The Gadfly is a novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich, published in 1897 (United States, June; Great Britain, September of the same year), set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism.
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Author : Ethel Lilian Boole Voynich
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-08-21
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Author : Ethel Voynich
language : en
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Release Date : 2018-09-14
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The Gadfly is a novel by Irish writer Ethel Voynich, published in 1897 (United States, June; Great Britain, September of the same year), set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings.[1] The story centres on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love, Gemma, simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism.
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Author : E. L. Voynich
language : en
Publisher: Arrow
Release Date : 1991-01
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The Gadfly was published in 1897, and its original publishers feared a hostile public reaction to its theme of revolution. Instead, it quickly became a classic of socialism, one of the very first politically aware novels. A story of love and conspiracy, it was based in part on the early life of Sidney Rosenblum, better known as "Reilly Ace of Spies" --Voynich's boyfriend at the time.
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Author : E. L. Voynich
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-07-18
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In Garibaldi's Time "What have we to do with Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazareth?"—the cry of one man at the beginning of his life, of another at its close—is the line that stands on the title page of Voynich's Gadfly. One man, while he is still a mere boy, loses faith in God and man and goes through the rest of his life a professed atheist, the other lives a long life of Christian faith and charity, making one final, supreme sacrifice to his religion—only in his turn to curse God and die. The atheism of the Gadfly may be directed against any God and all religion, as much of the book indicates, or it may be merely a protest against the state of the Roman Catholic Church at that period, when it had degenerated into the merest political tool. The Gadfly himself is always bitter against God, Christ and Christianity, as well as against the Church and its priests, and Montanelli, at the end, turns against them likewise. It may be that Voynich would show that there is no God, that one man may lose his God while he is still a boy and another may keep his faith until he is an old man—only to lose it at last. The cry of each of them "what have we to do with Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazareth?" seems to mean that a man may lose his faith early or late, as the chance may be, but lose it he must sometime. On the other hand, and the fact that neither man knew any religion but that of the Catholicism of the period supports this, it is possible that Voynich would only show the terrible results that must arise when the Church is corrupted, used for political ends, its faith betrayed, its sanctity gone. Whatever the aim Voynich had in writing the book it is in itself most unpleasant reading. But it is also extremely fascinating. The plot is good, it is original, strong and well-knit; it appeals to one's intelligence too, instead of relying entirely upon the imagination of the reader. The description and character development are the most remarkable features of the Gadfly. There is many a good plot that is wasted in the telling, but the account of the Gadfly's trial for his connection with Young Italy, his disguises in Italy, his death, the prison scene with Montanelli, the filing of the prison bars, the last night with Gemma, are all marvelously vivid. Then the book has those little things, those phrases and words, that make a book dear as well as interesting. The character development is scarcely behind the description. The Gadfly himself, as the most fully developed, shows Voynich's power at its best. Skillfully she draws the transformation of the high-strung, loving, sensitive, morbidly religious boy into a bitter, revengeful man, hard as beaten iron and inspiring fear rather than respect by his ability and wit. He was so exasperating, so absolutely maddening to deal with, and yet he had in him so much that was lovable and loving, that his character is full of contradictions which seem almost impossible. It is in this that Voynich's art is best proven, she presents the Gadfly first as Arthur, rather an unattractive boy, a little lacking in manliness; then as Rivarez, the satirist, disagreeable in the extreme, and finally she makes you forget all this and remember him only as the people knew him. The people loved him, '' he and his stinging repartees, his perpetual laughter, his bright infectious courage had come into their lives like a wandering sunbeam." That is good art. Montanelli and Gemma are well drawn, particularly Montanelli, and of the minor characters Martini is the best. The book will probably be censured—it is too careless of criticism to escape that—but with all its fascination it is not a book to have any lasting influence. It might gain one convert for atheism but it would drive away ten. —The Vassar Miscellany, Volume 28
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Author : Ezhel Lilian Voynich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
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Author : Mrs. Ethel Lilian Boole Voynich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
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