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Sylvia's Lovers Fiction_Gift_Guide THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'He's spoilt my life, he's spoilt it for as long as iver I live on this earth' The compelling story of an ordinary girl's tragic passion for a man who disappears, Sylvia's Lovers (1863) is Elizabeth Gaskell's last completed novel. Set in a fictional Whitby at the end of the eighteenth century, the novel is a modern revenge tragedy in which well intentioned actions have unforeseen and terrible human consequences. Sylvia is loved by two men, her serious