The cover page is adapted from Canal in Venice, San Trovaso Quarter, a painting completed in circa 1885 by Robert Frederick Blum. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frederick_Blumwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Venetians
章节(33)
- I: In the City by the Sea 0:00
- II: Afterthoughts 41:42
- III: “Fairies!” 1:31:21
- IV: “The Prelude to Some Brighter World” 2:28:43
- V: Teatime in Arcadia 2:48:46
- VI: Why Should He Refrain? 3:22:00
- VII: He Would Take His Time 4:15:21
- VIII: A Face in the Crowd 4:39:02
- IX: “Though Love, and Life, and Death Should Come and Go” 4:58:33
- X: “As Things That Are Not Shall These Things Be” 5:23:04
- XI: “One Thread in Life Worth Spinning” 5:50:19
- XII: “One Born to Love You, Sweet” 6:38:46
- XIII: “The Time of Lovers Is Brief” 6:54:11
- XIV: As a Spirit from Dream to Dream 7:12:54
- XV: “Love Should Be Absolute Love” 7:37:04
- XVI: To Live Forgotten and Love Forlorn 8:18:13
- XVII: “She Was More Fair Than Words Can Say” 9:03:29
- XVIII: “The Shadow Passeth When the Tree Shall Fall” 9:36:43
- XIX: “He Said, ‘She Has a Lovely Face’ ” 9:58:30
- XX: Peggy’s Chance 10:46:23
- XXI: “From the Evil to Come” 11:37:39
- XXII: “So Very Wilful” 11:59:34
- XXIII: The Little Rift 12:27:02
- XXIV: “Poor Kind Wild Eyes So Dashed with Light Quick Tears” 13:09:10
- XXV: “And Every Gentle Passion Sick to Death” 13:43:47
- XXVI: “Closer and Closer Swam the Thundercloud” 14:34:23
- XXVII: “Thou Mayst Be False and Yet I Know It Not” 15:16:58
- XXVIII: In the Blue Chamber 15:33:14
- XXIX: “ ’Tis Not the Same Now, Never More Can Be” 15:58:55
- XXX: A Double Exile 16:30:03
- XXXI: “Oh Tell Her, Brief Is Life, but Love Is Long” 16:44:18
- XXXII: “A Scene of Light and Glory” 17:07:57
- XXXIII: “Both Together, He Her God, She His Idol” 17:16:25
While enjoying Carnival in Venice, a gentleman named Vansittart meets a beautiful working-class woman. They’re enjoying a light-hearted meal in a cafe when her jealous lover unexpectedly attacks—and Vansittart fatally stabs him. Vansittart escapes, assumes a false identity, and resolves to keep the incident secret for the rest of his life. This traumatic event sends Vansittart on a journey of redemption filled with secrecy, jealousy, vengeance, and love.
The Venetians is one of M. E. Braddon’s later Victorian sensation novels, a form that combines romance and realism and is the 19th century precursor to modern-day pulp fiction. The novel celebrates the beauty of Venice and its vibrant culture of the arts, and includes delightful contemporary descriptions of Venice, London, and multiple scenic locations across England and Europe.