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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Turtleback Books
Publication date
February 1, 2004
Binding
Prebinding
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781417749386
ISBN-10
1417749385
Dimensions
1.50 by 4.50 by 7 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$16.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Lucy Snowe leaves her home in England to teach at a girls' boarding school on the Continent.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: When I was a girl I went to Bretton about twice a year, and well I liked the visit. The house and its inmates specially suited me. The large peaceful rooms, the well-arranged furniture, the clear wide windows, the balcony outside, looking down on a fine antique street, where Sundays and holidays seemed always to abideâ so quiet was its atmosphere, so clean its pavementâ these things pleased me well. One child in a household of grown people is usually made very much of, and in a quiet way I was a good deal taken notice of by Mrs. Bretton, who had been left a widow, with one son, before I knew her; her husband, a physician, having died while she was yet a young and handsome woman. She was not young, as I remember her, but she was still handsome, tall, well-made, and though dark for an Englishwoman, yet wearing always the clearness of health in her brunette cheek, and its vivacity in a pair of fine, cheerful black eyes. People esteemed it a grievous pity that she had not conferred her complexion on her son, whose eyes were blueâ though, even in boyhood, very piercingâ and the colour of his long hair such as friends did not venture to specify, except as the sun shone on it, when they called it golden.
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