Splendors and Glooms 1: Fog
About this book
This book is a historical fantasy novel by the contemporary American writer Laura Amy Schlitz. The background of the story is London in the Vitoria era in the nineteenth Century. On the 12-year-old birthday of doctor Mutter's daughter Clara, the puppet show master Glee Sidney is invited to make performance. His two apprentices are orphans, who admire Clara's family very much. In fact, Clara buries in her heart unknown sadness, guilt and secret. That night, Clara is missing. The suspect target points to the puppet master and the two apprentices. At this moment, misty mysteries are in London... With extraordinary imagination, this gothic black comedy creates a charming and stunning world of magic, which adds radiance and beauty to each other with the vivid description of reality. It is a influential work which can be compared with Charles Dickens' works.