The Shadow of a Dream: A Story
- ISBN-10
- 1505361303
- ISBN-13
- 9781505361308
- Series
- The Shadow of a Dream
- Pages
- 220
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-12-03
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Author
- W. Howells
Description
...In The Shadow of a Dream the moral difficulties are no mere gossamer threads that can be swept away by the first breath of common sense, but hard, crushing realities that hold their victims as in fetters of iron. Three lives are wrecked and sacrificed, and as regards two of them, the reader is left hesitating among three alternatives: Was their doom deserved? Was it a fearful and disproportionate chastisement for an involuntary offence, never translated from thought into act? Or were they entirely innocent people, victims of a cruel fatality? We need scarcely say that the poignant tale is told by Mr. Howells with his accustomed grace and skill, and that he once more gives signal proof of that keenness and subtlety in tracking human motives by which he stands out from other novelists as a sort of moral detective. -The Westminster Review, Volume 134
