The Beguiled (Movie Tie-In) (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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The basis for the major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning, and directed by Sofia Coppola, about women at a boarding school in Civil War-era Virginia who vie for the affections of a wounded Union soldier

When an injured Union soldier is found in the Virginia woods at the height of the Civil War, he is brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies to recover. Up until then, the residents of the boarding school had been shielded by their domineering headmistress from both the violence of the war and contact with the outside world, but the arrival of the attractive John McBurney will upend all of their lives.
The Beguiled sweeps the reader into a world where Southern gentility is played out against the increasingly ominous forebodings of a dark tragedy, as Corporal McBurney pits the women against each other in a bid for freedom. Combining the romantic entertainment of the historical novel with the probing insight of a work of psychological suspense, it is an eerie novel of sexual tension and repression, and of rivalry, jealousy, and, ultimately, vengeance.