A mermaid called the Sea Lady visits an English family known as The Buntings; ostensibly to learn about the modern world. But her real goal is to initiate an affair with the handsome, charming, moderately wealthy young gentleman named Harry Chatteris. He is running for political office and has an extremely beautiful fiance: the religious and social propagandist Adeline Glendower. But his life is sterile consisting only of work and duty. The Sea Lady offers a departure into the Great Outside, “There are better dreams…” she says.
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A House of Pomegranates (Novel Research)
Book Summary: A series of fairy tales with beautiful sensory details and material descriptions. These stories involve opulance, struggles with acceptability and commentaries on class inequality.
Summary of Story Three (The Fisherman and His Soul): A fisherman willingly parts with his Soul to be with a mermaid. His Soul is a useless abstraction with no bearing on the real or material world. It travels the earth, and gains many experiences in exotic locations and cities. But being abandoned and parted from the body, the Soul completes its travel with no heart nor love.
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