[The Mysterious Key and What It Opened]
Year:
1867
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Read & Co. Books
Year of publication:
2019
Pages:
54
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
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The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Louisa May Alcott wrote this novel in 1867, a year before Little Women was published, and it was published in a literary magazine that sold short novels at a very affordable price. The author needed to earn some money to live. The story has the ingredients of the gothic novel: the mansion of an English aristocratic family, intrigue, ghostly shadows, corpses, mysterious characters..., and a romantic love plot. Today it can be seen as a small museum piece. It is a well-constructed, entertaining story, in which the author knows how to maintain the suspense until the end. A book suitable for a good time.
Author: Luis Ramoneda, Spain
Update on: Nov 2021