The pool in the desert / Sara Jeannette Duncan ; edited by Gillian Siddall ; with an introduction by Rosemary Sullivan.
"In The Pool in the Desert, first published in 1903, Sara Jeannette Duncan explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian India. In the four stories collected here - "The Pool in the Desert," "A Mother in India," "An Impossible Ideal,&quo...
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| Language: | English |
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Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, NY :
Broadview Press,
[2001]
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| Series: | Broadview literary texts.
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| Online Access: | EBSCO eBooks Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | "In The Pool in the Desert, first published in 1903, Sara Jeannette Duncan explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian India. In the four stories collected here - "The Pool in the Desert," "A Mother in India," "An Impossible Ideal," and "The Hesitation of Miss Anderson," - Duncan's women have certain freedoms living amidst the reaches of Empire, but they also must negotiate their way through a landscape dominated by the constraints of small military societies. The stories that result combine a delicacy of manners and movement that recalls Henry James, with a wit and sharp eye for small town foibles that bring Stephen Leacock to mind."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (243 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1551111535 9781551111537 |