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De Lisser,Herbert G.

The White Witch of Rosehall

Ernest Benn, 1971

20,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1971
ISBN
0510199046
Luogo di stampa
London
Autore
De Lisser,Herbert G.
Editori
Ernest Benn
Soggetto
FICTION JAMAICA WEST INDIES CARIBBEAN
Descrizione
Near Fine
Descrizione
H
Sovracoperta
Stato di conservazione
In ottimo stato
Legatura
Rilegato
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione
No

Descrizione

" A very striking and curious story, founded on fact, of the West Indies of the early nineteenth century. Robert Rutherford is sent to the Islands to learn the planter's business from the bottom. He becomes an overseer at Rosehall, the property of a young widow, Mrs Palmer, whose three husbands have all died in curious circumstances. She takes a violent fancy to Rutherford, who is also embarrassed by the attentions of his half-caste housekeeper, Millicent. His housekeeper is urging him, with some success, to fall in with West Indian habits, when Mrs Palmer arrives. Millicent defies her and threatens her with the powers of Takoo, an Obeah man. Mrs Palmer, herself skilled in Obeah magic, puts a spell on the girl, which Takoo's rites, shattered by the white woman's stronger magic, are powerless to remove. de Lisser utilizes the conventions of a romantic entanglement to investigate and debate the wider socio-political issues within the novel that relate to colonialism, Jamaican identity and culture" 255p.

Edizione: 3rd.ed.