A page-turning late-Victorian mystery by a master, The Glass of Time is for fans of The Meaning of Night and for readers new to Michael Cox alike. Picking up the lives of characters from the first novel some twenty years later, The Glass of Time begins in Nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives from Paris at the great country house of Evenwood to become lady’s maid to the 26th /5(). Michael Cox was born in Northamptonshire in After graduating from Cambridge in , he went into the music business as a songwriter and recording artist, releasing two albums and a number of singles for EMI under the name Matthew Ellis and a further album, as Obie Clayton, for the DJM label. This bad guy talk is important because Cox's first book was about a murderer who may or may not be a bad guy, and may or may not be insane. The Glass of Time is the sequel and answers these questions. It is difficult to talk about this book without giving away 4/5.
Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Glass of Time: A Novel by Michael Cox (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! THE GLASS OF TIME. by Michael Cox. BUY NOW FROM. AMAZON Cox's second pastiche of Victorian sensational fiction is doubly remarkable for its sure grasp of the genre's idiom and its strange relationship to his first (The Meaning of Night, ). It was a mistake to wait several years after reading "The Meaning of Night" by the late Michael Cox before starting his other novel, "The Glass of Time." I hadn't realized the second book continued the story of the first, but from a different perspective.
This description may be from another edition of this product. Building on his haunting, superbly written debut, The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox returns to a story of murder, love, and revenge in Victorian England. The Glass of Time is a vividly imagined study Product Details. Format: Paperback. Michael Andrew Cox () was an English writer and editor. Biography. Michael Cox It was followed by a sequel, The Glass of Time set twenty years later. Michael Cox was born in Northamptonshire in After graduating from Cambridge in , he went into the music business as a songwriter and recording artist, releasing two albums and a number of singles for EMI under the name Matthew Ellis and a further album, as Obie Clayton, for the DJM label.
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