Precious Bane (Virago Modern Classics)

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Our narrator, looking back on those years as a "very old woman," is one of the greatest characters in English literature, Prue Sarn (b. The original plans are located at Shropshire Archives which should be invaluable in identifying the original structure. For no bitter lacked in that cup, and surely one of the bitterest things is to see the cruelty of man on some fair morning with blessing in it.

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In recent years the current owners of Spring Cottage have submitted plans to demolish it and replace it with a much larger modern house. There are misfortunes that make you spring up and rush to save yourself, but, there are others that are too bad for this, for they leave nought to do. Webb herself, whose Graves' disease caused her eyes to bulge and produced a disfiguring swollen goiter in her neck, knew something about the treatment many people mete out to those with medical conditions that affect our appearance.

Her ambitious and domineering brother betrays her and her superstitious neighbours accuse her of witchcraft. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

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However as Prue observes, money is his 'precious bane' and he will strive to aquire it at all costs. 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? 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 Sarn enables him to discern her natural loveliness beneath her blighted appearance. This confirmed the opinion of her admirers in the literary world that “Mary Webb is a Genius”(Rebecca West).It could have been set in medieval times, for the superstition, religious brutality and the treatment of women, children, and animals are awful. She falls in love with the weaver, Kester Woodseaves, as do all women who see him, because he is a fine figure of a man. Now the four winds stand up to sing their winter song-the thud of snow from creaking pine-branches, the cracking of ice on the meres, the reverberating fall of rocks split by the black frost on the hilltop, the shivering whimper of owls-these are the crude notes of the dark months.