Timeline
Lifetime:
1864 -
1960
Passed: ≈
65 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Ethel Lilian Voynich
Books by Ethel Lilian Voynich
Gadfly
Romance
Adventure
Drama
Love
Revolution
Romance
Faith
Heroism
political
Italy
Social Justice
Disillusionment
Austria
1840s
Youth Movement
The Gadfly is a powerful and complex novel set in the turbulent 1840s in Italy, a nation under Austrian rule. The story follows the passionate and idealistic Arthur Burton, a young member of the burgeoning Italian revolutionary movement, as he grappl...