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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture
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Mary Webb's "Poems, and The Spring of Joy" is a lyrical celebration of nature, love, and the human experience, reflecting the author's deep affinity for the rural English landscape. Webb's literary style is characterized by its rich imagery and emotional depth, often infused with a sense of mysticism that invites readers to explore the connections between humanity and the natural world. Set ... Read more

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Mary Webb's "Poems, and The Spring of Joy" is a lyrical celebration of nature, love, and the human experience, reflecting the author's deep affinity for the rural English landscape. Webb's literary style is characterized by its rich imagery and emotional depth, often infused with a sense of mysticism that invites readers to explore the connections between humanity and the natural world. Set
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Mary Gladys Meredith was born on 25th March 1881 at Leighton Lodge in the village of Leighton, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire.Mary was home-schooled by her father before being sent to a finishing school in Southport in 1895. Her longs walks in the countryside helped her develop a heightened sense of observation and description, of both people and places, which later infused both her poetry and ... Read more

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A captivating continuation of classic ghostly fiction filled with mystery and suspense. This volume presents another collection of unforgettable supernatural tales, featuring haunted places, mysterious apparitions, and eerie encounters that blur the line between reality and the unknown. Written by Various Authors, this anthology offers timeless thrills for lovers of supernatural literature. ... Read more

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Precious Bane was written by Mary Webb and first published in 1924. Narrated by the central character Prue Sarn, whose life is blighted by having a harelip. Only the weaver, Kester Woodseaves, perceives her inner beauty but Prue cannot believe herself worthy of him. Prue is wrongly accused of murder and only one man can save her and take her away to the happiness she believes she can never possess
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Mary Webb's Precious Bane is a haunting rural novel set in the border country of Shropshire, where marshland, old speech, folklore, and hard country work shape every life. From the memoir-like voice of Prue Sarn, the story looks back on a half-mythic world of Sarn Mere, where superstition, religion, family discipline, and local custom mingle with daily labor and hidden grief. Prue, judged for her
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The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

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The Spring of Joy was Mary Webb's collection of nature essays. First published in 1917 with an introduction by Walter de la Mare, these essays contain the core of Webb's nature mysticism and reveal her precise, minute observation of natural phenomena. They express her faith that health and divine vitality are to be found in "The spiritual ties between man and nature."
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Mary Gladys Meredith Webb's *Gone to Earth* (1917) is a richly atmospheric neo-romantic novel set in the border country of Shropshire, where human lives are inseparable from the rhythms and violence of the natural world. Its heroine, Hazel Woodus, is a passionate, socially marginal young woman whose intimacy with the countryside and her fox, Foxy, collides with the possessive demands of men and ... Read more

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Mary Gladys Meredith Webb's *Gone to Earth* (1917) is a richly atmospheric neo-romantic novel set in the border country of Shropshire, where human lives are inseparable from the rhythms and violence of the natural world. Its heroine, Hazel Woodus, is a passionate, socially marginal young woman whose intimacy with the countryside and her fox, Foxy, collides with the possessive demands of men and
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'She has a style of exquisite beauty which yet has both force and restraint, simplicity and subtlety she has fancy and wit, delicious humour and pathos. She sees and knows men aright as no other novelist does. She has, In short, genius' Mr. Edwin Pugh ... Read more

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'She has a style of exquisite beauty which yet has both force and restraint, simplicity and subtlety she has fancy and wit, delicious humour and pathos. She sees and knows men aright as no other novelist does. She has, In short, genius' Mr. Edwin Pugh
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Precious Bane

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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 ... Read more

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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
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A haunting tale of passion set in Shropshire in the 1800sBorn at the time of Waterloo in the wild countryside of Shropshire, England, Prudence Sarn is a passionate girl, cursed with a harelip—her “precious bane.” She is cursed for it, too, by the superstitious people amongst whom she lives. Prue loves two things: the remote countryside of her birthplace and, hopelessly, Kester Woodseaves, the ... Read more

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A haunting tale of passion set in Shropshire in the 1800sBorn at the time of Waterloo in the wild countryside of Shropshire, England, Prudence Sarn is a passionate girl, cursed with a harelip—her “precious bane.” She is cursed for it, too, by the superstitious people amongst whom she lives. Prue loves two things: the remote countryside of her birthplace and, hopelessly, Kester Woodseaves, the
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Mary Gladys Meredith was born on 25th March 1881 at Leighton Lodge in the village of Leighton, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire.Mary was home-schooled by her father before being sent to a finishing school in Southport in 1895. Her longs walks in the countryside helped her develop a heightened sense of observation and description, of both people and places, which later infused both her poetry and ... Read more

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Mary Gladys Meredith was born on 25th March 1881 at Leighton Lodge in the village of Leighton, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire.Mary was home-schooled by her father before being sent to a finishing school in Southport in 1895. Her longs walks in the countryside helped her develop a heightened sense of observation and description, of both people and places, which later infused both her poetry and
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