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Variable Winds at Jalna
Jalna, Band 15
8,49 € |
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Verlag: | Dundurn |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 02.12.2010 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781554888429 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 296 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>First published in 1954, in <i>Variable Winds at Jalna</i>, the immediate sequel to <i>Rennys Daughter</i>, Maitland Fitzturgis and his sister, Sylvia Fleming, travel from Ireland for his official acceptance by the family as Adelines husband. Finch and Maurice also return, and Maurice brings with him his own problematic affairs of the heart. It quickly becomes one of the most fateful years that Jalna has known, and the story ends with more than one peal of the wedding bells. This is book 15 of 16 in <i>The Whiteoak Chronicles</i>. It is followed by Centenary at Jalna<i>.</i><i></i></p>
<p>Maitland Fitzturgis and his sister, Sylvia, travel from Ireland for his official acceptance by the family as Adelines husband. Finch and Maurice also return, and Maurice brings with him his own problematic affairs of the heart.</p>
<p>Mazo de la Roche, in 1927, was an impoverished writer in Toronto when she won a $10,000 prize from <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i> for her novel <i>Jalna</i>. The book became an immediate bestseller and was eventually adapted for stage, screen, and television.</p>