The Project Gutenberg eBook ofThe CounterplotThis ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online atwww.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.Title: The CounterplotAuthor: Hope MirrleesRelease date: December 1, 2020 [eBook #63935]Most recently updated: October 18, 2024Language: EnglishCredits: E-text prepared by Mary Glenn Krause, Charlene Taylor, University of Chicago, Shawna Milam, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net)*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COUNTERPLOT ***
This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online atwww.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.
Title: The CounterplotAuthor: Hope MirrleesRelease date: December 1, 2020 [eBook #63935]Most recently updated: October 18, 2024Language: EnglishCredits: E-text prepared by Mary Glenn Krause, Charlene Taylor, University of Chicago, Shawna Milam, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net)
Title: The Counterplot
Author: Hope Mirrlees
Author: Hope Mirrlees
Release date: December 1, 2020 [eBook #63935]Most recently updated: October 18, 2024
Language: English
Credits: E-text prepared by Mary Glenn Krause, Charlene Taylor, University of Chicago, Shawna Milam, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net)
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Counterplot, by Hope Mirrlees
Miss Hope Mirrlees, when she wroteMadeleine, several years ago, was recognised to be one of the most promising of the younger school of women novelists.
The Counterplotis a study of the literary temperament. Teresa Lane, watching the slow movement of life manifesting itself in the changing inter-relations of her family, is teased by the complexity of the spectacle, and comes to realise that her mind will never know peace till, by transposing the problem into art, she has reduced it to its permanent essential factors. So, from the texture of the words, the emotions, the interactions of the life going on around her she weaves a play, the setting of which is a Spanish convent in the fourteenth century, and this play performs for her the function that Freud ascribes to dreams, for by it she is enabled to express subconscious desires, to vent repressed irritation, to say things that she is too proud and civilised ever to have said in any other way. This brief summary can give but little idea of the charm of style, the subtlety of characterisation, and the powerful intelligence which Miss Hope Mirrlees reveals. The play itself is a most brilliant, imaginativetour de force!
THECOUNTERPLOTbyHOPE MIRRLEESAuthor of “Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists”“Every supposed restoration of the past is a creation of the future, and if the past which it is sought to restore is a dream, a thing but imperfectly known, so much the better.”Miguel de Unamuno.LONDON: 48 PALL MALLW. COLLINS SONS & CO. LTD.GLASGOW MELBOURNE AUCKLANDCopyrightFirstImpression,December, 1923Second”February, 1924Third”April, 1924Manufactured in Great Britain
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byHOPE MIRRLEESAuthor of “Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists”
“Every supposed restoration of the past is a creation of the future, and if the past which it is sought to restore is a dream, a thing but imperfectly known, so much the better.”
Miguel de Unamuno.
LONDON: 48 PALL MALLW. COLLINS SONS & CO. LTD.GLASGOW MELBOURNE AUCKLAND
Copyright
Manufactured in Great Britain
TOJANE HARRISON
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