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"A professor becomes obsessed with a woman he sees escaping in a hotel fire. He marries her despite her acknowledging that she doesn't love him. His obsession with her is ruinous to their marriage."
Lynda Pringle, Resident Scholar
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"When Nicholas first meets Etna he is a young professor at a small college, and Etna is the niece of one of his colleagues. Nicholas instantly becomes obsessed with the beautiful and mysterious Etna, and he sets out to make her his wife. Etna finally consents to marry Nicholas but first she informs him that she will never love him. Nicholas believes that he can make her love him in time, but the years pass, the couple has two children, and Etna still remains at a distence. When Nicholas learns that his wife has been keeping a small cottage that she goes to when she wants to be alone, he becomes infuriated and threatens to divorce her. Etna takes him at his word, and the divorce proceedings begin. A desperate Nicholas decides that he will do anything necessary to keep Etna, so he endangers his daughter in a trap to forever ensnare his wife. "
fran laniado, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Romance/Romance Problems
Yes
Lover is
- totally uninterested
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- scholar
- teacher
Age:
- 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 3 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- impregnation/reproduction
- actual description of hetero sex
- descript. of female anat. (the big V)
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- written like a journal/diary/letters
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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