Sylvia's Lovers
by Elizabeth Gaskell
1863
ISBN/ASIN: 0460877836
Number of pages: 560
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A powerfully moving novel of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, Sylvia's Lovers is set in the 1790s in an English seaside town. England is at war with France, and press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service.
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