Anthony Adverse (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Hervey Allen
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Picaresque romance
- Time of Work: Late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
- Setting: Western Europe, Africa, and North America
- Principal Characters: Anthony Adverse, Maria, Don Luis, Marquis da Vincitata, Mr. Bonnyfeather, Faith Paleologus, Angela Giuseppe, Florence Udney, Dolores de la Fuente, Vincent Nolte
- Genres: Long fiction, Picaresque fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Self-discovery, Africa or Africans, Traveling or travelers, France or French people, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Europe or Europeans, Eighteenth century, Sea or seafaring life, Adventure, Napoleonic Wars
- Locales: Africa, Europe, North America
The Story:
The pretty young Marquise Maria da Vincitata, daughter of a Scottish merchant of Leghorn, fell in love with young Denis Moore within the year after her marriage and met with him secretly in France while her husband was taking a cure for his gout. Don Luis, the arrogant Marquis da Vincitata, discovering the intrigue, spirited his wife away and killed her gallant, luckless lover when he started out in pursuit. Maria’s baby was born high in the Alps. After his wife died during childbirth, Don Luis took the child to Leghorn, where he stealthily deposited the...
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