Towers in the Mist - Couverture souple

Goudge, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140470506 ISBN 13 : 9780140470505

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1965

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Présentation de l'éditeur

One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceaseless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person. Elizabeth Goudge, Towers in the Mist It is late sixteenth-century London when awkward teenage Faithful travels to Oxford to study in Englands great university. When Canon Leigh takes him in, Faithful enters into a family as exciting and educational as the university itself. Woven into the narratives of Faithful and the canons daughter Joyeuce is Oxford during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I with the pomp and sordidness of the spectacular era of Englands Golden Age. Not only a historical journey, Towers in the Mist is also a coming-of-age tale of young love and hope.|One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceaseless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person. Elizabeth Goudge, Towers in the Mist. It is late sixteenth century London when awkward teenage Faithful travels to Oxford to study in Englands great university. When Canon Leigh takes him in, Faithful enters into a family as exciting and educational as the university itself. Woven into the narratives of Faithful and the canons daughter Joyeuce is Oxford during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I with the pomp and sordidness of the spectacular era of Englands Golden Age. Not only a historical journey, Towers in the Mist is also a coming-of-age tale of young love and hope.

Biographie de l'auteur

Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was born on April 24th 1900 in Wells, Somerset, where her father was Principal of Wells Theological College. Although she had privately intended writing as a career, her parents insisted she taught handicrafts in Oxford. She began writing in her spare time and her first novel ISLAND MAGIC, set in Guernsey, was a great success here and in America. GREEN DOLPHIN COUNTRY (1944) projected her to fame, netting a Literary Guild Award and a special prize of £30,000 from Louis B. Mayer of MGM before being filmed.

In her later years Elizabeth Goudge settled in Henley-on-Thames. She died on April 1st, 1984.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0140470506
• ISBN 13: 9780140470505
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368