The Curse of the Wise Woman
Book Details
| Title: | The Curse of the Wise Woman | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1933 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Longmans, Green and Co. | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fantasy, fiction | ||||||||||
| Description: | The plot concerns a motherless teenaged Anglo-Irish gentleman of the 1890s whose father has been forced to flee the country. Left in charge of the family estates, he uses his freedom to indulge his love of field sports, focusing especially on wildfowl-shooting on a nearby peat bog. There is an extended chapter narrating a magnificent fox hunt, whose trophy, the brush, forms the focus of a poignant moment in the coda, in the narrator's old age. When he discovers that the existence of the bog is threatened by an industrial peat-cutting syndicate he finds no effective ally except an old woman who believes herself to be a "wise woman", or witch. The syndicate is defeated either by her occult powers or by the unaided forces of nature, just as the reader chooses to believe.--Wikipedia. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 247 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 167  |
Author Bio for Plunkett, Edward 18th Baron of Dunsany
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays.--Wikipedia.
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