Precious Bane
1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2020
256 pages
978-1-952438-62-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is the story of us all at Sarn, of Mother and Gideon and me, and Jancis, and Wizard Beguildy, and the two or three other folk that lived in those parts, that I did set out to tell. There were but a few, and maybe always will be, for there's a discouragement about the place. It may be the water lapping, year in and year out?everywhere you look and listen, water; or the big trees waiting and considering on your right hand and on your left; or the unbreathing quiet of the place, as if it was created but an hour gone, and not created for us.
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Person
Mary Webb
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Book One
- Chapter 1: Sarn Mere
- Chapter 2: Telling the Bees
- Chapter 3: Prue takes the Bidding Letters
- Chapter 4: Torches and Rosemary
- Chapter 5: The First Swath Falls
- Chapter 6: "Saddle your Dreams before you Ride 'em"
- Chapter 7: Pippins and Jargonelles
- Book Two
- Chapter 1: Riding to Market
- Chapter 2: The Mug of Cider
- Chapter 3: "Or Die in 'tempting It"
- Chapter 4: The Wizard of Plash
- Chapter 5: The Love-Spinning
- Chapter 6: The Game of Costly Colours
- Chapter 7: "The Maister Be Come"
- Chapter 8: Raising Venus
- Chapter 9: The Game of Conquer
- Book Three
- Chapter 1: The Hiring Fair
- Chapter 2: The Baiting
- Chapter 3: "The Best Tall Script, Flourished"
- Chapter 4: Jancis Runs Away
- Chapter 5: Dragon-flies
- Book Four
- Chapter 1: Harvest Home
- Chapter 2: Beguildy Seeks a Seventh Child
- Chapter 3: The Deathly Bane
- Chapter 4: All on a May Morning
- Chapter 5: The Last Game of Conquer
- Chapter 6: The Breaking of the Mere
- Chapter 7: Open the Gates as Wide as the Sky
