Conceit
by Mary Novik | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0385662068 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0385662068 Global Overview for this book
2 journalers for this copy...
"An extraordinary debut novel"
Set against the lively backdrop of seventeenth-century England, from the court of Elizabeth I to the teeming, bawdy streets of restoration London, this audaciously novel vividly portrays the lives of men and women driven by passion.
"Pegge Donne is still a rebellious girl, barely in her teens and already too clever for a worl that values learning ony in men, when her father, the famous poet John Donne, begins arranging marriages for his five daughters... including Pegge.
Pegge, however, is desperate to experience the all-consuming passion that led to her parents' clandestine elopement. She sets out to win the love of Donne's friend, Izaak Walton, and tries to draw the secrets of desire out of her father during his final days."
Purchased for a member of the Birthday Group 2014, who has it on her WishList.
I'm afraid it will arrive too late, as it took a long time to get here... but I hope she'll still enjoy it!
Set against the lively backdrop of seventeenth-century England, from the court of Elizabeth I to the teeming, bawdy streets of restoration London, this audaciously novel vividly portrays the lives of men and women driven by passion.
"Pegge Donne is still a rebellious girl, barely in her teens and already too clever for a worl that values learning ony in men, when her father, the famous poet John Donne, begins arranging marriages for his five daughters... including Pegge.
Pegge, however, is desperate to experience the all-consuming passion that led to her parents' clandestine elopement. She sets out to win the love of Donne's friend, Izaak Walton, and tries to draw the secrets of desire out of her father during his final days."
Purchased for a member of the Birthday Group 2014, who has it on her WishList.
I'm afraid it will arrive too late, as it took a long time to get here... but I hope she'll still enjoy it!
Sent as a belated Birthday Present to Kally93, who has it in her WishList.
Sorry for the delay, I ordered it for you (for the Birthday Group 2014), and it took ages to arrive.
I enclose a little something from Madrid as well.
I hope you'll like it... and keep on celebrating! :)
Sorry for the delay, I ordered it for you (for the Birthday Group 2014), and it took ages to arrive.
I enclose a little something from Madrid as well.
I hope you'll like it... and keep on celebrating! :)
Thank you so much for ordering and sending me this wishlist book! Thank you also for the wonderful Madrid fridge magnet! Perfect for my collection. :)
