Precious Bane
Book Details
| Title: | Precious Bane | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1926 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, romance, Femina—Vie Heureuse Prize | ||||||||||
| Description: | The book has an Introduction by The Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), three-time Prime Minister of Britain during the 1920’s and ’30’s. A compelling story of passion, with an enduring air of enchantment throughout, Precious Bane is a novel that haunts us with its beauty and its timeless truths about our deepest hopes. Set in Shropshire in the 1800s, it is alive with the many moods of Nature, benevolent and violent and the many moods—equally benevolent and violent—of the people making lives there. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 194 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 234  |
Author Bio for Webb, Mary
Mary Webb (1881-1927) was an English romantic novelist of the early 20th century, whose novels were set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people which she knew and loved well. Although she was acclaimed by John Buchan and by Rebecca West, who hailed her as a genius, and won the Prix Femina of La Vie Heureuse for Precious Bane (1924), she won little respect from the general public. It was only after her death that the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, earned her posthumous success through his approbation, referring to her as a neglected genius at a Literary Fund dinner in 1928.
Her writing is notable for its descriptions of nature, and of the human heart. She had a deep sympathy for all her characters and was able to see good and truth in all of them. Among her most famous works are: The Golden Arrow (1916), Gone to Earth (1917), and Seven for a Secret (1922).
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