Perrin, Alice

Stella Carrington, young and beautiful, feels that life is passing her by in the repressed The Woman in the Bazaar is a story set in the colonial times, moving (in no particular pace) between India and England. It's the story of Colonel Coventry, who holds very archaic ideas - even for those times - on propriety, women, and conduct.

Стелла Кэррингтон, молодая и красивая, чувствует, что жизнь проходит мимо нее в подавленном состоянии. «Женщина на базаре» — это история, действие которой происходит в колониальные времена, перемещаясь (в произвольном темпе) между Индией и Англией. Это история полковника Ковентри, который придерживался очень архаичных даже для того времени представлений о п Развернуть

Stella Carrington, young and beautiful, feels that life is passing her by in the repressed Victorian household of her grandmother and spinster aunts. A casual flirtation shocks and horrifies the elderly ladies, and they summon Robert Crayfield, her godfather, who is an officer in the Indian Civil Service, to make suitable arrangements for her to be a missionary or governess. But, tantalized by her beauty and disregarding the difference in their ages, he offers to marry her instead, scandalizing the village.

Stella, indifferent to romance, is most excited by the prospect of going to India that her marriage offers. Once there, she is enthralled at the beauty and mystery of the subcontinent, but increasingly disenchanted by her husband, who is only interested in her as a whet to his sensual appetites. When the young, handsome Philip Flint is posted as a junior officer in the same town, for the first time, she is forced to consider her own desires and duties.

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