The Romantic (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

May Sinclair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331258022 ISBN 13: 9781331258025

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

She loves. She questions. She stays true to a war-torn heart. A woman in a charged affair confronts desire, guilt, and the pull of power during a world at war.

This novel unfolds through Charlotte Redhead’s memories and choices as she navigates a fraught relationship with a man who both captivates and challenges her. Set against the backdrop of war, it follows intimate moments of passion, the strain of conscience, and the search for truth in a life shaped by fear, longing, and the harsh realities around them.

• Experience a morally complex romance that questions what love really costs.


• Follow a woman’s inner world as she weighs loyalty, desire, and integrity.


• Explore how war reshapes relationships and personal identity.


• Immerse in precise, vivid scenes that blend emotion with social context.

Ideal for readers of psychological realism, modern wartime fiction, and literature that centers a woman’s perspective in a difficult choice.

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Excerpt from The Romantic

The tail of her long, averted stare was conscious of him, of his big, tweed-suited body and its behaviour, squaring and swelling and tightening in its dignity, of its heavy swing to her shoulder as they turned.

She could stave off the worst by not looking at him, by looking at other things, impersonal, innocent things: the bright, yellow, sharp-gabled station; the black girders of the bridge; the white signal post beside it holding out a stiff, black-banded arm; the two rails curving there, with the flat, white glitter and sweep of scythes pointed blades coming together, buried in the bend of the cutting.

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About the Author

May Sinclair (1863-1946), poet, translator, critic, fiction writer, woman's suffrage advocate, and co-founder of a pioneering psychoanalytic clinic, was one of the most popular female British novelists of the early twentieth century. Her twenty-four novels include "Mary Olivier: A Life and The Three Sisters.
Francine Prose's most recent book is "The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired. A contributing editor at "Harper's, she is the author of ten books of fiction, including "Blue Angel, a 2000 National Book Award finalist.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331258022
• ISBN 13: 9781331258025
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 269