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Wer nach einem Buch von Sarah Waters aus dem Themenfeld Sachbuch sucht, findet mit Selinas Geister eine Ausgabe mit präziser inhaltlicher Positionierung. Mit dem Untertitel Roman wird bei Selinas Geister noch deutlicher, in welche Richtung das Werk inhaltlich argumentiert und welche Schwerpunkte gesetzt werden. Selinas Geister wird in der Beschreibung wie folgt charakterisiert: A spellbinding ghost story, a complex and intriguing historical mystery, and a poignant romance with an enexpected twist.An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a seance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina’s gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina’s freedom, and her own.As in her noteworthy deput, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters brilliantly evokes the sights and smells of a moody and beguiling nineteenth-century London, and proves herself yet again a storyteller, in the words of the New York Times Book Review, of "startling power." A tale that will leave readers "transfixed with horror and excitement" (Daily Mail, London) Affinity, in its accomplishment and sophistication, leaves no doubt as to this writer's considerable gifts.“[Affinity] confirms Waters’ uncanny gift for establishing an instant connection between her readers and her flawed yet compelling central protagonists…she’s a novelist of major rank [who] probes into questions of difference and susceptibility, privilege and confinement, betrayal and loss—and there are few young writers out there who can match it.” —The Seattle Times“The novel takes numerous surprising twists and turns before the startling resolution…superb…Waters pulls out all the stops.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel“If lesbian fiction is to reach a wider readership, Waters is the person to carry the banner.”—The New York Times Book Review“The author of Tipping the Velvet displays her incredible talent for the Gothic historical novel in this splendid book about a Victorian women’s prison and the affair there between an inmate and a ‘lady visitor.’” —The San Francisco Chronicle“Unfolds sinuously and ominously…a powerful plot-twister. The book is multidimensional: a naturalistic look at Victorian society; a truly suspenseful tale of terror; and a piece of elegant, thinly veiled erotica…Like a Ouija board, Affinity offers different messages to different readers, scaring the shrouds off everyone in the process.”—USA Today“Waters has perfect pitch in her representations of bourgeois Victorian life, the puritanical misery of prisons in the 1870s, and the spiritualist subculture…a deeply absorbing book.” —The Advocate

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Mit der Sprache Deutsch lässt sich Selinas Geister auch im internationalen oder mehrsprachigen Kontext präzise filtern. Das hinterlegte Publikationsdatum 2002 unterstützt dabei, Selinas Geister zeitlich korrekt zu klassifizieren. Im Kontext des Gesamtwerks von Sarah Waters lässt sich Selinas Geister gezielt bibliografisch und thematisch einordnen. Selinas Geister spricht besonders Nutzer an, die sich für Bücher rund um Sachbuch interessieren.

Thematische Einordnung von Selinas Geister

Selinas Geister lässt sich inhaltlich innerhalb von Sachbuch verorten und wird in der Beschreibung wie folgt umrissen: A spellbinding ghost story, a complex and intriguing historical mystery, and a poignant romance with an enexpected twist.An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a seance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina’s gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina’s freedom, and her own.As in her noteworthy deput, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters brilliantly evokes the sights and smells of a moody and beguiling nineteenth-century London, and proves herself yet again a storyteller, in the words of the New York Times Book Review, of "startling power." A tale that will leave readers "transfixed with horror and excitement" (Daily Mail, London) Affinity, in its accomplishment and sophistication, leaves no doubt as to this writer's considerable gifts.“[Affinity] confirms Waters’ uncanny gift for establishing an instant connection between her readers and her flawed yet compelling central protagonists…she’s a novelist of major rank [who] probes into questions of difference and susceptibility, privilege and confinement, betrayal and loss—and there are few young writers out there who can match it.” —The Seattle Times“The novel takes numerous surprising twists and turns before the startling resolution…superb…Waters pulls out all the stops.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel“If lesbian fiction is to reach a wider readership, Waters is the person to carry the banner.”—The New York Times Book Review“The author of Tipping the Velvet displays her incredible talent for the Gothic historical novel in this splendid book about a Victorian women’s prison and the affair there between an inmate and a ‘lady visitor.’” —The San Francisco Chronicle“Unfolds sinuously and ominously…a powerful plot-twister. The book is multidimensional: a naturalistic look at Victorian society; a truly suspenseful tale of terror; and a piece of elegant, thinly veiled erotica…Like a Ouija board, Affinity offers different messages to different readers, scaring the shrouds off everyone in the process.”—USA Today“Waters has perfect pitch in her representations of bourgeois Victorian life, the puritanical misery of prisons in the 1870s, and the spiritualist subculture…a deeply absorbing book.” —The Advocate Über die Schlagwörter Fiction, History, Fiction, historical, general, Social life and customs, Fiction, historical, Thriller, London (england), fiction, Prisons, Fiction, ghost, Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ novels, Women prisoners, Spiritualism, collection:barbara_gittings_literature_award=winner, Millbank Penitentiary (London, England), Millbank Prison (London, England), Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction Winner lässt sich Selinas Geister auch in größeren Beständen gezielt auffinden.

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Im Open-Library-Kontext ist das Werk über OL551010W sowie die Editionszuordnungen OL51684728M referenzierbar.

Die zentralen Metadaten zu Selinas Geister

1. Ausgabeform: pocket
2. Titel: Selinas Geister
3. Publiziert bei: Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag
4. Inhaltliche Kurzcharakteristik: A spellbinding ghost story, a complex and intriguing historical mystery, and a poignant romance with an enexpected twist.An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a seance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina’s gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina’s freedom, and her own.As in her noteworthy deput, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters brilliantly evokes the sights and smells of a moody and beguiling nineteenth-century London, and proves herself yet again a storyteller, in the words of the New York Times Book Review, of "startling power." A tale that will leave readers "transfixed with horror and excitement" (Daily Mail, London) Affinity, in its accomplishment and sophistication, leaves no doubt as to this writer's considerable gifts.“[Affinity] confirms Waters’ uncanny gift for establishing an instant connection between her readers and her flawed yet compelling central protagonists…she’s a novelist of major rank [who] probes into questions of difference and susceptibility, privilege and confinement, betrayal and loss—and there are few young writers out there who can match it.” —The Seattle Times“The novel takes numerous surprising twists and turns before the startling resolution…superb…Waters pulls out all the stops.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel“If lesbian fiction is to reach a wider readership, Waters is the person to carry the banner.”—The New York Times Book Review“The author of Tipping the Velvet displays her incredible talent for the Gothic historical novel in this splendid book about a Victorian women’s prison and the affair there between an inmate and a ‘lady visitor.’” —The San Francisco Chronicle“Unfolds sinuously and ominously…a powerful plot-twister. The book is multidimensional: a naturalistic look at Victorian society; a truly suspenseful tale of terror; and a piece of elegant, thinly veiled erotica…Like a Ouija board, Affinity offers different messages to different readers, scaring the shrouds off everyone in the process.”—USA Today“Waters has perfect pitch in her representations of bourgeois Victorian life, the puritanical misery of prisons in the 1870s, and the spiritualist subculture…a deeply absorbing book.” —The Advocate
5. Open-Library-Work-ID: OL551010W
6. Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
7. Verfügbare Sprache dieser Ausgabe: Deutsch
8. Internationale Standardbuchnummer (ISBN-10): 3746613477
9. Primäre Kategorie: Sachbuch
10. Untertitel: Roman
11. Externe Editionsreferenzen: OL51684728M
12. Autor beziehungsweise Autoren: Sarah Waters
13. Thematische Tags: Fiction, History, Fiction, historical, general, Social life and customs, Fiction, historical, Thriller, London (england), fiction, Prisons, Fiction, ghost, Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ novels, Women prisoners, Spiritualism, collection:barbara_gittings_literature_award=winner, Millbank Penitentiary (London, England), Millbank Prison (London, England), Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction Winner

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Durch die Kombination aus Titel, Autorenschaft, Kategorie und Schlagwörtern - also Selinas Geister, Sarah Waters, Sachbuch und Fiction, History, Fiction, historical, general, Social life and customs, Fiction, historical, Thriller, London (england), fiction, Prisons, Fiction, ghost, Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ novels, Women prisoners, Spiritualism, collection:barbara_gittings_literature_award=winner, Millbank Penitentiary (London, England), Millbank Prison (London, England), Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction Winner - ist der Datensatz sowohl für Suchmaschinen als auch für Nutzerinnen und Nutzer sehr gut interpretierbar.

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