Description

This is a story of a household coping with the death of the father, a son who would go to court for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father’s deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes active in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband. Some tips about what seems for the world as a pleasant Victorian book, possibly by Anthony Trollope…except that everybody in the story is just a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Listed here are train stations and politics, churchmen and family retainers, courtship, and nation houses…in which, to the death of an elder, family members gather to consume your body of the departed. In which society’s large and mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby.