Name: Precious Bane
Price: 25.43 EUR
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Author: Webb, Mary
ISBN: 9781515442349

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mary Webb

Publisher

Wilder Publications

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781515442349

Synopsis "Precious Bane "

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 lapping, year in and year out—everywhere you look and listen, water; or the big trees waiting and considering on your right hand and on your left; or the unbreathing quiet of the place, as if it was created but an hour gone, and not created for us.

Mary Webb

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(Shropshire 1881 - St. Leonards on Sea 1927) was an English novelist and poet. She began writing when she was ten years old, but always ended up burning all her poems. However, once her brother read one and without telling her, he took it to the Shrewsbury Chronicle, which published it anonymously. Mary was amazed at the warm reception it received. From the age of twenty, Mary Webb had developed Graves-Basedow disease, and that suffering, as well as her longing for Shropshire, would inspire her for Precious Bane (1924). Despite winning the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse with this novel, she did not achieve success until after her early death in 1927, when Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin referred to her as "a forgotten genius".

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