Crimson Petal and the White

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Michel Faber: Crimson Petal and the White (2003, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers)

922 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2003 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers.

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The Crimson Petal and the White is a 2002 novel by Michel Faber set in Victorian England. The title is from an 1847 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson entitled "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal", the opening line of which is "Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white."

10 editions

Subjects

  • London (england), fiction
  • Fiction, historical
  • Young women, fiction