The gate clicked and she was there. She had never looked so frail, so provocative; she had never been more purposeful or less desirous of admiration. They went in. Lily was genuinely pleased; after the rambling ruin at home, impossible to keep in order even for more industrious hands than hers, the compact, neat little home was delightful. She thought how easy the work would be. She was not meant for the hardy magnificence of manual labour.
Mary Webb Ordre des livres (chronologique)
Mary Webb était une romancière anglaise du début du XXe siècle, dont les œuvres se déroulaient principalement dans la campagne du Shropshire et parmi ses habitants, qu'elle connaissait et aimait profondément. Son écriture se distingue par des descriptions saisissantes de la nature et de profondes perspectives sur le cœur humain. Elle possédait une profonde empathie pour tous ses personnages, trouvant la bonté et la vérité en chacun d'eux. Le style distinctif de Webb présente souvent une prose lyrique, tissant habilement le monde naturel avec les vies émotionnelles de ses personnages.
Seven for a Secret
- 260pages
- 10 heures de lecture
Mary Webb was an English romantic novelist of the early 20th century, whose novels were set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people which she knew and loved well. Although she was acclaimed by John Buchan and by Rebecca West, who hailed her as a genius, and won the Prix Femina of La Vie Heureuse for Precious Bane (1924), she won little respect from the general public. It was only after her death that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Stanley Baldwin, earned her posthumous success through his approbation, referring to her as a neglected genius at a Literary Fund dinner in 1928. Her writing is notable for its descriptions of nature, and of the human heart. She had a deep sympathy for all her characters and was able to see good and truth in all of them. Among her most famous works are: The Golden Arrow (1916), Gone to Earth (1917), and Seven for a Secret (1922).
Precious Bane
- 336pages
- 12 heures de lecture
A bold reissue of a stunning novel in the tradition of Thomas Hardy and the Brontes - and a perennial favourite on the Virago Modern Classics list.
Příběh z anglického venkova na sklonku napoleonských válek. Dějovou linii tvoří osud mladého sedláka, který obětuje touze po bohatství své nejbližší i sebe. Dílo je svázáno s přírodou, doznívajícími starobylými tradicemi, zvyky a pověrami.
