Death in the Castle - Softcover
Sir Richard and Lady Mary need to sell the thousand year old castle which has been in the family for hundreds of years. Sir Richard has no heir to pass the castle on to, and if he doesn't sell the English government will turn it into a prison or a powerplant. John Blayne, an American, wishes to buy the castle, but he wants to take the castle apart piece by piece and bring it to America and make it into a museum. Sir Richard does not know this and this becomes a source of conflict.
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Pearl S. Buck (1892 1973) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize winning author. Her classic novel "The Good Earth" (1931) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first half of her life in China, where many of her books are set. In 1934, civil unrest in China forced Buck back to the United States. Throughout her life she worked in support of civil and women s rights, and established Welcome House, the first international, interracial adoption agency. In addition to her highly acclaimed novels, Buck wrote two memoirs and biographies of both of her parents. For her body of work, Buck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, the first American woman to have done so. She died in Vermont.
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- PublisherMacmillan
- Publication date1969
- ISBN 10 033002292X
- ISBN 13 9780330022927
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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Death in the Castle
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 237 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, UK, 1966. First Paperback Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have moderate creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine has minor lean and moderate reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. Small tear at base of spine. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The ancient, brooding castle was known as Starborough. John Blayne, wealthy young American, was determined to buy it and move it stone by stone to his estate in Connecticut. But even though impoverished, the aristocratic owners, Sir Richard Sedgley and Lady Mary, were loath to sell. The castle was their obsession. Lady Mary believed it harbored spirits of past ages who would help save it from demolition. As for Sir Richard, he was haunted by a secret guilt that finally drove him into reliving a tragic episode of an earlier century. It fell to the lovely Kate to try to reconcile the Sedgleys and Blayne, the past and the present. Ostensibly a servant and granddaughter of the elderly butler Wells, this strange, enchanting girl revealed that she had qualities far beyond those of a simple maid. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; ISBN: 033002292X. ISBN/EAN: 9780330022927. Inventory No: 23090094. Seller Inventory # 23090094
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DEATH IN THE CASTLE
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