Precious Bane - Couverture souple

Webb, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0268015384 ISBN 13 : 9780268015381

Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 1990

Synopsis

Born at the time of Waterloo in the wild country of Shropshire, Prudence Sarn is a wild, passionate girl, cursed with a hare lip -- her 'precious bane'. Cursed for it, too, by the superstitious people amongst whom she lives. Prue loves two things: the remote countryside of her birth and, hopelessly, Kester Woodseaves, the weaver. The tale of how Woodseaves gradually discerns Prue's true beauty is set against the tragic drama of Prue's brother, Gideon, a driven man who is out of harmony with the natural world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mary Gladys Webb (1881-1927) was an English romance novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people whom she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably the film Gone to Earth in 1950 by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger based on the novel of the same title. The novels are thought to have inspired the famous parody Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0268015384
• ISBN 13: 9780268015381
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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