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Gone To Earth
Av Mary Webb
Häftad, 1979
144 kr
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The daughter of a Welsh gypsy and a crazy bee-keeper, Hazel Woodus is happiest living in her forest cottage in the remote Shropshire hills, at one with the winds and seasons, protector and friend of the wild animals she loves. But Hazel's beauty and innocence prove irresistible to the men in her …
Precious Bane
Av Mary Webb
Häftad, 2021
144 kr
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'Brighter and better than Thomas Hardy . . . a marvellous writer' Eloise Millar, GuardianPrudence Sarn was born with a cleft palate, her 'precious bane', for which she is persecuted as a witch by her superstitious neighbours. Hiding from daily ridicule, she takes refuge in the wild Shropshire …
Precious Bane
Av Mary Webb
Häftad, 1990
297 kr
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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, …
Precious Bane
Av Mary Webb
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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''Brighter and better than Thomas Hardy . . . a marvellous writer'' Eloise Millar, Guardian Prudence Sarn was born with a cleft palate, her ''precious bane'', for which she is persecuted as a witch by her superstitious neighbours. Hiding from daily ridicule, she takes refuge in the wild Shropshire …
Golden Arrow (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Av Mary Webb
E-bok, 2011
21 kr
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In Webb’s first (1916) novel, the poor Shropshire youths Stephen and Deb search for a mythical arrow said to bind couples together—if they can find it on a Palm Sunday. But another local legend, the ill-omened Devil’s Rock, broods over the countryside, promising evil. The deep psychological …
Gone to Earth (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Av Mary Webb
E-bok, 2011
21 kr
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Hazel Woodus has a father who plays the harp and builds coffins. Her closest friend is a pet fox. Even so, this beautiful child of nature can’t help but draw men to her, including the minister who she marries and the fox-hunter who relentlessly pursues her. Hazel’s naïveté allows Mary Webb’s themes …
Spring of Joy: (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A Little Book of Healing
Av Mary Webb
E-bok, 2011
21 kr
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Dedicated “to the weary and wounded in the battle of life,” this 1917 collection of devotional and meditative writings on nature’s variety includes “The Joy of Motion,” “The Joy of Music,” “The Joy of Fragrance,” “Laughter,” “The Beauty of Form,” “The Beauty of Colour,” “The Beauty of Shadow,” and …
Precious Bane
Av Mary Webb
E-bok, 2011
160 kr
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''She has a style of exquisite beauty which yet has both force and restraint, simplicity and subtlety she has fancy and wit, delicious humour and pathos. She sees and knows men aright as no other novelist does. She has, In short, genius'' Mr. Edwin Pugh
Precious Bane
Av Mary Webb
E-bok, 2020
28 kr
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This is the story of us all at Sarn, of Mother and Gideon and me, and Jancis, and Wizard Beguildy, and the two or three other folk that lived in those parts, that I did set out to tell. There were but a few, and maybe always will be, for there’s a discouragement about the place. It may be the water …
Precious Bane
Av Mary Webb
E-bok, 2019
38 kr
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This is the story of us all at Sarn, of Mother and Gideon and me, and Jancis, and Wizard Beguildy, and the two or three other folk that lived in those parts, that I did set out to tell. There were but a few, and maybe always will be, for there’s a discouragement about the place. It may be the water …
Precious Bane
Av Mary Webb
Inbunden, 2020
265 kr
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Precious Bane is Mary Webb's celebrated rural novel set in the Shropshire countryside during the Napoleonic era. Narrated by Prue Sarn, a young woman marked by a physical deformity and by the suspicion of her neighbours, the novel unfolds within a tightly observed agricultural community shaped by …
