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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1891 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1917 Edition.
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Lady Connie (Paperback)
Mrs. Humphrey Ward; Illustrated by Albert Sterner
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R1,178
Discovery Miles 11 780
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1906 Edition.
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Harvest (Paperback)
Mrs. Humphrey Ward
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R1,014
Discovery Miles 10 140
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.
Complete and unabridged, this edition is sure to become the
definitive modern text of this epic novel from 1888 by Mrs.
Humphrey Ward. This book caused a sensation when it was originally
published, challenging established cultural mores regarding the
practice of religion. This edition has been carefully crafted from
the original with the spelling updated to modern American
standards, and the foreign words and phrases faithfully annotated
so that an English speaking readers may enjoy the work fully
without knowing Latin, Greek, German, or French. This was one of
the most influential books of its time, and holds up well today
both as a compelling story and as a study in late Victorian
culture. ---Excerpt--- About four o'clock on the afternoon of the
day which was to be marked in the annals of Long Whindale as that
of Mrs. Thornburgh's 'high tea, ' that lady was seated in the
vicarage garden, her spectacles on her nose, a large couvre-pied
over her knees, and the Whinborough newspaper on her lap. The
neighborhood of this last enabled her to make an intermittent
pretence of reading; but in reality the energies of her
house-wifely mind were taken up with quite other things. The
vicar's wife was plunged in a housekeeping experiment of absorbing
interest. All her solid preparations for the evening were over, and
in her own mind she decided that with them there was no possible
fault to be found. The cook, Sarah, had gone about her work in a
spirit at once lavish and fastidious, breathed into her by her
mistress. No better tongue, no plumper chickens, than those which
would grace her board to-night were to be found, so Mrs. Thornburgh
was persuaded, in the district. And so with everything else of a
substantial kind. On this head the hostess felt no anxieties.
1920. Frontispiece by Allan Gilbert. The novelist Mrs. Humphrey
Ward (Mary Arnold Ward), was the niece of the poet Matthew Arnold,
and granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby
School who was immortalized as a character in the novel Tom Brown's
Schooldays. Harvest begins: Two old laborers came out of the lane
leading to Great End Farm. Both carried bags slung on sticks over
their shoulders. One, the eldest and tallest, was a handsome
fellow, with regular features and a delicately humorous mouth. His
stoop and his slouching gait, the gray locks also, which straggled
from under his broad hat, showed him an old man-probably very near
his old-age pension. But he carried still with him a look of youth,
and he had been a splendid creature in this time. The other was
short of stature and of neck, bent besides by field work. A
broadly-build, clumsy man, with something gnome-like about him, and
the cheerful look of one whose country nerves had never known the
touch of worry or long sickness. The name of the taller man was
Peter Halsey, and Joseph Batts was his companion. See other titles
by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Lady Connie (Paperback)
Mrs. Humphrey Ward; Illustrated by Albert Sterner
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R1,086
Discovery Miles 10 860
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1916. The novelist Mrs. Humphrey Ward (Mary Arnold Ward), was the
niece of the poet Matthew Arnold, and granddaughter of Dr. Thomas
Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School who was immortalized as a
character in the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays. Lady Connie begins:
Well, now we've done all we can, and all I mean to do, said Alice
Hooper, with a pettish accent of fatigue. Everything's perfectly
comfortable, and if she doesn't like it, we can't help it. I don't
know why we make such a fuss. See other titles by this author
available from Kessinger Publishing.
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imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
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