Precious Bane (Virago Modern Classics)

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She would sit for hours deep in thought observing and absorbing her environment, developing the themes for her work. It be like the blue country a traveller sees at dawn, and he dunna know if it'll be a kind country with farms sending up a trail of smoke in the sunset, and a meal for the asking, or if it'll be a wild, savage moor where he'll starve to death with cold afore morning. Boards a little spotted at the spine and with tanning to the textblock edge but a nice clean copy with tight binding. In the early 19th century, a young woman with a harelip falls foul of her family's ambition and the superstitions of the local community, but meets a man who may see her differently.

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It's up to this Prince Charming to perceive the real beauty of Pruedence Sarn and free her from gossip and hateful stares. Among her most famous works are: The Golden Arrow (1916), Gone to Earth (1917), and Seven for a Secret (1922). Mary explored the countryside around her childhood home, and developed a sense of detailed observation and description, of both people and places, which later infused her poetry and prose. The quality of the acting is amazing with Janet McTeer making a superlative Prudence and a young Clive Owen stomping around as the taciturn Gideon Sarn.At the old man’s funeral, Gideon agrees to be his father’s sin eater (one who ritually takes on the sins of the dead) in exchange for full control of the farm at Sarn Mere. There are echoes of Cyrano de Bergerac’s letter-writing, and Shakespeare’s mistaken identities, and some excellent flirtation in the vernacular (“Not so daggly, neither! Not only had he looked at me, but he had looked with favour and longing, and though I knew it was only because the truth was hidden from him, yet I was glad of what I had, as a winter bird is, that will come to your hand for a little crumb, though in plenteous times she would but mock you from the topmost bough.

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He works hard (and slaves Prue to do the same for him) to be wealthy and prosperous and his pride prevents him from marrying the girl he loves, fair Jancis, because he wants to be well-off before he gives himself that pleasure, not caring if others suffer because of his material whims.Mary's work has also been immortalised by Hollywood, with the making in 1949 of the movie Gone To Earth starring Jennifer Jones. Shropshire towns and features cropped up in her books, albeit with disguised names, as she shared her love of her county with readers. On 12 June 1912, Webb married Henry Bertram Law Webb (1885-1939), a teacher, at Meole Brace's Holy Trinity parish church. Although she believes she won’t ever know the bonds of love, Prue falls for the weaver, Kester Woodseaves.

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Winner of the 1926 Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, Precious Bane is a novel that enchants with its beauty and its timeless truths. This novel may then be considered to have been written in English when the language was still a young boy of thirteen. Today there is a Mary Webb Society which keeps her name alive, fostering interest in her works, her writing, and the landscape which inspired her. With the publication of Precious Bane, a substantial readership came to respect Mary Webb's quiet genius; and it is for this country classic that she has been remembered ever since. Times I wonder if heaven will be thus, a long gazing on a face you canna tire of, but must ever have one more glimpse.When she was a young girl the narrator expressed wonderment that her mother kept on telling her father, in moments of anguish--"Could I help it if the hare crossed my path? as if some creature made all of light had come on a sudden from a great way off, and nestled in my bosom. Jancis Beguildy - The wizard's daughter and Gideon Sarn's intended wife, plump, blonde with a lush, pleasing mouth always forming a lovely "oh. For what is there in earth, or in heaven, if it comes to that, like the knowledge that you’ve found favour in the eyes of him that is your dear acquaintance, and the Maister? While at Pontesbury in 1914 to 1916, she and Henry did their bit for the war effort by growing vegetables in their garden and selling them at Shrewsbury market.