
Olalla (1885) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Story of a Lia in Philipp's Parentage
Stevenson plays with the twining of a golden lineage and an earthy peasant. The narrator hopes to voyage to the eldorado of elia's soul. Elia herself must entertain doubts that they are not. We know her to be pious and to have high standing with her confessor. In the finale that stevenson lamented as his own work, she cast the narrator out and makes herself a christ like sacrifice. How does the om how is it resolved without spoiling too much? Is there a resolution? Or is it a classic gothic end to a story? Er, yes. An, no, like he doesn't end up trapped there. Er, so he'd
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