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Gone To Earth (Paperback, New Ed)
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Gone To Earth (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Virago Modern Classics
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Mary Webb's novels, like those of the better known Thomas Hardy,
are characterized by the omnipotent hand of Fate. Just as in
Precious Bane Gideon's harsh approach to nature brings its own
inevitable result, so in this earlier novel, written during the
height of World War I, heroine Hazel Woodus finds that the sexual
awakening that banishes her innocence brings inescapable doom.
Nature at its purest cannot withstand the onslaught of human
passion. Hazel has been brought up in the forest, and it is both
her beauty and unworldliness that attract two very different men,
each of whom will change her life irrevocably. Webb is often
described as a 'regional' novelist but at her best she transcends
such a limiting definition, capturing with real vigour the natural
world and its powerful influence on mankind. (Kirkus UK)
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 into a world of
mortal passion in which she must eternally be a stranger.
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Imprint: |
Virago Press Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Virago Modern Classics |
Release date: |
December 1979 |
First published: |
July 1992 |
Authors: |
Mary Webb
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Dimensions: |
197 x 125 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
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Pages: |
288 |
Edition: |
New Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-86068-143-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-86068-143-2 |
Barcode: |
9780860681434 |
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