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The Sonnet Lover : A Novel by Carol Goodman is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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For how thy memory has lingered on–In spite of cruelest winter’s drear and howl–By inner mirror seen; I’ve dwelled upon,I must confess, my treachery most foul.Did Shakespeare pen a series of passionate sonnets, unknown to modern scholarship, ardently praising a mysterious dark-haired beauty? This tantalizing question is raised in a letter to literature professor Rose Asher. But the letter’s author, Rose’s star pupil, is not telling. A troubled, enigmatic young man, he plunged to his death in front of the college’s entire faculty, an apparent suicide. Determined to find the truth, Rose journeys from New York to Italy, back to the magnificent Tuscan villa where as an undergraduate she first fell in love.La Civetta is a dreamlike place, resplendent with the heady scent of lemon trees and the sunset’s ocher wash across its bricks and cobbles. Once there Rose finds her first love still in residence. Torn between her mission and her rekindled feelings, Rose becomes enmeshed in a treacherous tangle of secrets and scandal. A folio containing what some believe to be one of Shakespeare’s lost sonnets has vanished, and literary immortality awaits whoever finds the manuscript–as do a vast Ital
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Carol Goodman
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780345479570
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (112 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14