Precious Bane (Virago Modern Classics)

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She became very self-conscious due to the disfiguring features of the disease and began to retreat into her own solitary world. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. Prue works almost as hard as he does, but her focus is on helping others--always first to sacrifice herself for someone in need. A monumental bust of Mary Webb, commissioned by the Mary Webb Society, was unveiled in the grounds of Shrewsbury Library on 9 July 2016.

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Consequently her collected works were republished in a standard edition by Jonathan Cape, becoming best sellers in the 1930s and running into many editions.The lilies on the mere are “like the raiment of those men who stood with Christ upon the mountain top”, floating as if Jesus, “walking upon the water, had laid them down with His cool hands”. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Under its French title Sarn, it was produced as a television play by French Television ORTF in 1968, with Dominique Labourier as Prue, Josep Maria Flotats as Gedeon and Pierre Vaneck as Kester; the director was Claude Santelli. Mi piaceva osservare la pasta che lievitava al calore della fiamma, e scaldare il forno con le fascine, raccattandone poi la cenere, e allineare per bene le pagnottine. Stanley Baldwin read Mary Webb’s Precious Bane at Christmas 1926, less than a year before her death.

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Like Baldwin, I was transported by Webb’s novel, a love story about a young woman with a “hare-shotten lip” who learns to tell the time by watching the reflections in Sarn Mere, a lake so old that she wonders whether it belongs to someone’s dream.

In The Book of Strange New Things, a Christian minister, Peter, is employed by a mysterious corporation to travel to a distant planet. I found the recording and thought it was too perfect, for it captures the atmosphere of the tale and wrings a tear. He is a good man, a hard-worker, but his obsession for money, the precious bane, takes all precedence in his life, and as we often see in our own time, the blind pursuit of money often loses us our chances of happiness. 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. Adapted in a six-part BBC television drama series in 1957, starring Patrick Troughton and Daphne Slater.