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Author: Ernest Henham Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781479228386 Category : Languages : en Pages : 270
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This is a romantic tale of unrequited love on the beautiful and dangerous landscape of Dartmoor in Devon, England, around the close of the nineteenth century. A spirited, young girl, Beatrice Pentreath, adores perfection in nature and is obsessed with the witchcraft, superstition and folklore of her ancestors in Cornwall. She is quietly pursued by a scholarly, 35-year old bachelor, recluse named John Burrough. Beatrice lives in a fantasy world that John is intrigued by and participates in as the two explore the ancient secrets of the moors together. Their mutual interest in the natural world leads to a tragic event that shatters their relationship and demolishes John's chances as her potential lover. He desperately seeks to overcome their separation and win back her affections. Comic interludes are provided through several rural characters from a small village. Mr Yeoland is an old vicar who flirts with youthful Beatrice. A simple butter-maker, Ann Cobbledick, who is Beatrice's landlady and the parish gossip, is determined to secure a tombstone for herself without paying the granite merchant, Rubert Eastaway, for it. Ann's unemployed loaf of a son, Willum, is another amusing character who fails miserably to conceal his educational ignorance. Interwoven with the story of the two lovers and their country neighbors are several Cornish folktales and a journey across the West Country that is reminiscent of a picturesque travelogue. A Pixy in Petticoats was the first novel of Ernest George Henham to be a commercial success. There are many elements in it that foreshadow the greatness of his Dartmoor trilogy: Furze the Cruel, Heather, and Granite. This edition of A Pixy in Petticoats includes detailed annotations about the many Biblical, Classical, historical and geographical references in the book.
Author: Ernest Henham Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781479228386 Category : Languages : en Pages : 270
Book Description
This is a romantic tale of unrequited love on the beautiful and dangerous landscape of Dartmoor in Devon, England, around the close of the nineteenth century. A spirited, young girl, Beatrice Pentreath, adores perfection in nature and is obsessed with the witchcraft, superstition and folklore of her ancestors in Cornwall. She is quietly pursued by a scholarly, 35-year old bachelor, recluse named John Burrough. Beatrice lives in a fantasy world that John is intrigued by and participates in as the two explore the ancient secrets of the moors together. Their mutual interest in the natural world leads to a tragic event that shatters their relationship and demolishes John's chances as her potential lover. He desperately seeks to overcome their separation and win back her affections. Comic interludes are provided through several rural characters from a small village. Mr Yeoland is an old vicar who flirts with youthful Beatrice. A simple butter-maker, Ann Cobbledick, who is Beatrice's landlady and the parish gossip, is determined to secure a tombstone for herself without paying the granite merchant, Rubert Eastaway, for it. Ann's unemployed loaf of a son, Willum, is another amusing character who fails miserably to conceal his educational ignorance. Interwoven with the story of the two lovers and their country neighbors are several Cornish folktales and a journey across the West Country that is reminiscent of a picturesque travelogue. A Pixy in Petticoats was the first novel of Ernest George Henham to be a commercial success. There are many elements in it that foreshadow the greatness of his Dartmoor trilogy: Furze the Cruel, Heather, and Granite. This edition of A Pixy in Petticoats includes detailed annotations about the many Biblical, Classical, historical and geographical references in the book.
Author: Thatcher Heldring Publisher: Delacorte Press ISBN: 0375987142 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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For every athlete or sports fanatic who knows she's just as good as the guys. This is for fans of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Grace, Gold, and Glory by Gabrielle Douglass and Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan. The summer before Caleb and Tessa enter high school, friendship has blossomed into a relationship . . . and their playful sports days are coming to an end. Caleb is getting ready to try out for the football team, and Tessa is training for cross-country. But all their structured plans derail in the final flag game when they lose. Tessa doesn’t want to end her career as a loser. She really enjoys playing, and if she’s being honest, she likes it even more than running cross-country. So what if she decided to play football instead? What would happen between her and Caleb? Or between her two best friends, who are counting on her to try out for cross-country with them? And will her parents be upset that she’s decided to take her hobby to the next level? This summer Caleb and Tessa figure out just what it means to be a boyfriend, girlfriend, teammate, best friend, and someone worth cheering for. “A great next choice for readers who have enjoyed Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Dairy Queen and Miranda Kenneally’s Catching Jordan.”—SLJ “Fast-paced football action, realistic family drama, and sweet romance…[will have] readers looking for girl-powered sports stories…find[ing] plenty to like.”—Booklist “Tessa's ferocious competitiveness is appealing.”—Kirkus Reviews “[The Football Girl] serve[s] to illuminate the appropriately complicated emotions both of a young romance and of pursuing a dream. Heldring writes with insight and restraint.”—The Horn Book
Author: Anna Maria Mackenzie Publisher: ISBN: 9781934555293 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
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The narrator of "Tenebrae" inhabits a decaying, desolate mansion in the remote and wild countryside with his younger brother and their mad old uncle, driven insane by abuse of opium and alcohol. This nameless narrator is a morbid young man who passes most of his time in a room painted all black, poring over arcane manuscripts dealing with the mysteries of death, while sipping garishly coloured liquors brewed by his uncle or cups of coffee flavoured with arsenic. When he falls in love with a neighbour, he looks forward to marrying her and trading his life of despondency for one of joy. Perhaps unsurprisingly, though, she finds him rather unpleasant company and instead falls in love with his brother. Driven to murderous jealousy, he resolves upon a brutal crime. But after the consummation of his terrible act, he finds himself haunted by a huge, monstrous spider. Is it a delusion brought on by incipient madness? the reincarnated soul of his murdered victim, returned for vengeance? or does it foretell a fate even more horrifying than can be possibly imagined? Published in 1898, at the end of a decade in which English writers explored the literary possibilities of the Gothic with such characters as Dorian Gray, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, and The Beetle, Ernest G. Henham's weird horror novel "Tenebrae" is reminiscent of the works of Poe. Perhaps unequalled in its extreme darkness and gloom, and yet at times grimly, though possibly unintentionally, hilarious, "Tenebrae" remains one of the strangest productions of this fertile literary period. This newly typeset edition includes the unabridged text of the first edition, as well as an introduction and notes by Gerald Monsman, the foremost scholar of Henham (1870-1946), who later published under the name John Trevena. Also featured is a reproduction of the cover of the incredibly scarce first edition.
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