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Gone to Earth (Virago Modern Classics)
Mary Webb
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Description for Gone to Earth (Virago Modern Classics)
Paperback. * A work of rare poetic beauty in the tradition of the Brontes and Hardy Series: VMC. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
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 orbit. Both Jack Reddin, the local squire and Edward Marston, the gentle minister, offer her human -- and carnal -- love.
Hazel's fate unfolds as simply and relentlessly as a Greek tragedy as a child of nature is drawn ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Series
VMC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860681434
SKU
V9780860681434
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99-50
About Mary Webb
Mary Webb, poet, mystic and lover of nature, spent most of her life in Shropshire, which features in all of her novels. Admiring contemporaries described Webb as a 'strange genius' and 'one of the best living writers'. After a life of illness and near-poverty, Mary Webb died in 1927.
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