Michael Ferrier
By
E. Frances Poynter
Michael Ferrier is the story of a young poet who loves and is loved by a beautiful girl, Helen Umfraville. In a moment of frenzy he kills, half by accident, the man who attempts to stand between them. The death passes for either accident or suicide, and no suspicion is aroused; but the girl sees her lover’s trouble, questions him, and the turning point of the book is the scene when he confesses to her his act, and she takes the decision that seems to her right in consequence.
DAILY TELEGRAPH.—“There are so many real tragedies in life, and so few convincing ones in fiction, that the perusal of Miss E. Frances Poynter’s little study is likely to make a deep impression on the reader. For here is real tragedy.... In her characterisation the authoress is most happy.... Miss Poynter possesses keen psychological insight and a not unkindly satire when she pleases, as well as the power to depict pathos and suffering, with the pen of the artist.”
PUNCH.—“Miss Frances Poynter, though not a new novelist, is a fresh acquaintance of my Baronite’s. If her earlier works are as good as ‘Michael Ferrier,’ they are worth looking up.”
S. WEIR MITCHELL
Price 6s.
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