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Melissa
Melissa
Author: Taylor Caldwell
Her latest book will earn new laurels. Its psychological insight, its narrative power, the ingenious handling of suspense, all mark Melissa as one of the greatest novels Taylor Caldwell has written. In a story filled with wisdom and deep pathos, she proves herself once more a master of the secrets of the human heart.
ISBN: 428890
Publication Date: 1948
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Scribners
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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The most riveting portrait of a woman's passion since the Brontes' demon-haunted lovers. Melissa: Beautiful, obsessive, pledged to a terrifying devotion.... Geoffrey: Her husband, who raged and fought for her love..... Charles: Her father, who manacled her life to his own ravaging needs..... Taylor Caldwell enters the stark, brooding manse of nineteenth-century blue bloods to chronicle a compellling tale of treacherous loves
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Taylor Caldwell is a brilliant writer.

She married a man she hated, to be true to another love.
"Strange . . . magnificent" THE NEW YORK TIMES


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