Lucan has been orphaned and Zosine has been deserted, and London is a hostile place for two young girls without a home. Bound together by poverty, grief and their shared years at school, they set out to make a future for themselves in new surroundings. They are adopted by the austere, puritanical Reverend Pennhallow and his wife, and in their large, gloomy house they become immersed in study. But, after a chain of disturbing events, it does not take long before they realize that the cleric and his wife are not all they seem ...
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Lucan has been orphaned and Zosine has been deserted, and London is a hostile place for two young girls without a home. Bound together by poverty, grief and their shared years at school, they set out to make a future for themselves in new surroundings. They are adopted by the austere, puritanical Reverend Pennhallow and his wife, and in their large, gloomy house they become immersed in study. But, after a chain of disturbing events, it does not take long before they realize that the cleric and his wife are not all they seem to be ...
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Used; Good. Used; Good. 1-E-01 University of Chicago Press 1975 Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free end page. There is light pencil underlining on several pages which does not obscure text. Jacket has light wear. Book Condition; Good Jacket Condition; Good. 1975. HARDCOVER.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First American edition. Fine in an about very good dustwrapper with shallow chips at the extremities. Dinesen's only full-length novel, a romance set in 19th Century England and France, sometimes interpreted as an allegory of the decline of the Nazis.
