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Precious Bane de Mary Webb

Precious Bane

Autor Mary Webb
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 sep 2024
'With the publication of Precious Bane, a substantial readership came to respect Mary Webb's quiet genius . . . When she died at the age of forty-six, literature lost a voice that promised to speak for Shropshire as poignantly as Thomas Hardy had spoken for Wessex, Emily Bronte for Yorkshire - New York Times

Prudence Sarn was born with her 'precious bane', a cleft palate, for which she is persecuted as a witch by her superstitious neighbours. Their daily ridicule drives Prue to take refuge in the wild Shropshire countryside, and she develops a profound love of nature. Furtively, Prue dreams of being , of being kissed on the lips, and harbours a hopeless passion for Kester Woodseaves, the weaver.

Prue's brother, Gideon, is hungry for wealth and power, whatever the cost. Gideon incurs the wrath of his would-be father-in-law, whose act of vengeance results in Prue being accused of murder. Only Kester, who has perceived her true worth, can defend her from her accusers.

Winner of the 1926 Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Prize.
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ISBN-13: 9780645751918
ISBN-10: 064575191X
Pagini: 290
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Living Book Press

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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.
 
Prue Sarn is an unlikely heroine, born with a facial disfiguration which the Fates have dictated will deny her love. But Prue has strength far beyond her handicap, and this woman, suspected of witchcraft by her fellow townspeople, rises above them all through an all-encompassing sweetness of spirit.
 
Precious Bane is also the story of Gideon, Prue's doomed brother, equally strong-willed, but with other motives. Determined to defeat the poverty of their farm, he devotes all his energies to making money. His only diversion from this ambition, he abandons her for the stronger drive of his money lust.
 
And finally, it is the story of Kester Woodseaves, whose steady love for all created things leads him to resist people's cruelty toward nature and each other, and whose love for Prue Saen enables him to discern her natural and rach other, and whose love for Prue Sarn enables him to discern her natural loveliness beneath her blighted appearance. 
Rebecca West, a contemporary of Mary Webb, called her, simply, "a genius," and G. K. Chesterton, another contemporary, asserted: "the light in the stories . . . is a light not shining on the things but through them."
 
Critic Hilda Addison summed up Precious Bane: "The book opens with one of those simple sentences which haunt the mind until the curiosity has been satisfied . . . It strikes a note which never fails throughout; it opens with a beauty which is justified to the last sentence."
 
When the book was first published in 1926 in America, the New York Times Book Review predicted: " on some bookshelves, we feel sure, Precious Bane will find almost a hallowed place." 

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