Archangel Michael. Werner E.

“Lady novels” were popular at all times, because the tragic and happy stories of relations described on the pages of these books always touched their souls and forced millions of readers around the world to cry or smile. E. Werner (the pseudonym of the German writer Elizabeth Burstenbert), whose works enjoyed great success in the late XVIII - early XIX centuries, contemporaries called the "indisputable mistress of women's reading" and the master of the "ladies' novel". The book “Archangel Michael” offered to your attention is written, like all works of E. Werner, very exciting, atmospheric and original, and in addition to the love, there is also a detective line. The action of the novel transfers us to the 19th century. General Steinryuk supported the same orders in his family as among his army subordinates - unquestioning obedience and discipline. But his daughter Louise, his favorite and pride, is just as strong -willed, decisive and adamant as he himself, broke his heart, becoming the wife of a notorious rogue and crossing out all his relations with his relatives and his brilliant future for the sake of an extremely dubious, according to his father, feelings, feelings.