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product_id: 7285431
title: "Dragonwyck"
brand: "anya seton"
price: "301 kr"
currency: DKK
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reviews_count: 10
url: https://www.desertcart.dk/products/7285431-dragonwyck
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region: Denmark
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# Dragonwyck

**Brand:** anya seton
**Price:** 301 kr
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Dragonwyck by anya seton
- **How much does it cost?** 301 kr with free shipping
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Dragonwyck

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## Customer Reviews

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    Bought it for my Mom, who read it 70 years ago.
  

*by A***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 14, 2023*

She enjoyed it as much as she did ca 1954. Small price to make Mom happy for a while.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    a great "escapist" book
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 19, 2009*

Dragonwyck has all the ingredients of a stereotypical Gothic story -- a beautiful, innocent young girl, a handsome, brooding aristocrat, a haunting ghostly presence connected to some past evil, and a huge castle-like mansion.  Even the name of this mansion "Dragonwyck" adds to the melodrama, suggesting the abode of a dragon.  In the hands of a less skillful writer these ingredients could easily add up to a hackneyed cliche of a book.  However, Anya Seton weaves her story in such a way that it is never boring, never contrived, and though the plot is pretty predictable without any real surprises, she manages to keep the story interesting.  Even though you know what's going to happen, you want to keep reading, anyway.Admittedly, I am a fan of well-written Gothics; Jane Eyre and Rebecca are two of my all-time favorites.  And after reading Dragonwyck I consider it of almost that same caliber.  It was only Seton's second published work and, like her other earlier books, it shows a subtlety and constraint that, I think, make it a finer work than if Seton had spelled out every detail.  In this, too, it compares to Jane Eyre and Rebecca.  For instance, the violence which led to the haunting of the Red Room at Dragonwyck, the evil in the Van Ryn men which has been passed down to Nicholas, and the psychological damage to Nicholas somehow connected to the loss of his mother, are all only vaguely described by Seton.  Although she could have explained them in detail she instead leaves it for the reader to fill in the gaps of the past history themselves.  And of course, the sexual relations between Miranda and Nicholas are only vaguely referred to.  This is due more to the cultural constraints of the times during which Seton wrote than to a particular choice of style, as evidenced by her later works written when such constraints had become much more relaxed.  Green Darkness in particular, and to a lesser degree Avalon, are much coarser in their treatment of sex.  This is why I prefer Seton's earlier works, and older books in general.  I do not need a writer to spell it out in graphic detail for me to understand what goes on behind the closed doors.  And in fact, I find such graphic sex a poor substitute for the truly fine writing of earlier authors who knew how to tell a good story without titillating their readers.Ok, enough of that.....What makes Dragonwyck particularly engaging is the setting.  Perhaps it's just the romantic or Gothic-lover in me, but I found the setting of 19th century New York along the Hudson river something that I wanted to return to; a perfect escape from the 21st century!  Although Seton's works are typically considered "historicals", the historical element of Dragonwyck is secondary; it is first and foremost a romance.  Although Seton does weave in some actual historical events that took place during the time of the story, the history doesn't really impact Miranda's and Nicholas' story all that much.  The true driving force was Nicholas, and what happened to him, and to Miranda because of him, was inevitable regardless of what took place in the world around them.There are a couple of little teasing tidbits that I wish Seton had followed up on.  The first is in her Author's Note, where says that the idea for this story came from a news item she read in a New York newspaper from 1849.  I do wish she had related just what was in that article .......  The second is in the early part of the book, when Nicholas orders a whole new wardrobe for Miranda shortly after her arrival at Dragonwyck.  The modiste hired to make the clothes is not surprised, because Nicholas had done the same thing for "an orphan from New Orleans" not long before.  Nicholas, being the misanthropist that he was, would not have taken in an orphan and ordered her a new, expensive wardrobe just to be generous.  Just who was this orphan?  I really thought this was going to be a significant point later in the book, but unfortunately it was never mentioned again......So if you're looking for an enjoyable book to escape into for a time, this is it.  Enjoy!

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    Not For Me
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 30, 2022*

Do not read this book unless you enjoy twisted gothic tales with ghosts, abuses of power, the subjugation of women, murder, and the like. The story is set in 1844 in the Hudson River valley upriver from New York City. The historic aspects of the book were the only thing that I enjoyed. The story begins when the Wells family receives a letter from and extraordinarily wealthy cousin asking them to send their eldest daughter to his estate to be a teacher and companion to his only daughter. The Wells family is working very hard to scrape by on a small farm and Miranda is dazzled by the idea of living in rich surroundings. Miranda was hard to like. She is understandably naïve, but she is also shallow, callow, and selfish. Her cousin is a sociopath and perhaps the reader is supposed to blame his amoral and manipulative behavior and her youth for her shortcomings. I thought she should have more responsibility for her failings. This book is long, and it felt longer. It was not a book that I enjoyed reading.

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