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Precious Bane

Mary Webb

Paperback | Pages: 328 pages

Rating: 4.22 | 2341 Users | 459 Reviews

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Original Title:	Precious Bane
ISBN:	0268015384 (ISBN13: 9780268015381)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Anglais (1926)

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A compelling story of passion, with an enduring air of enchantment throughout, Precious Bane is a novel that haunts us with its beauty and its timeless truths about our deepest hopes. Set in Shropshire in the 1800s, it is alive with the many moods of Nature, benevolent and violent and the many moods -- equally benevolent and violent -- of the people making lives there.
 
Prue Sarn is an unlikely heroine, born with a facial disfiguration which the Fates have dictated will deny her love. But Prue has strength far beyond her handicap, and this woman, suspected of witchcraft by her fellow townspeople, rises above them all through an all-encompassing sweetness of spirit.
 
Precious Bane is also the story of Gideon, Prue's doomed brother, equally strong-willed, but with other motives. Determined to defeat the poverty of their farm, he devotes all his energies to making money. His only diversion from this ambition, he abandons her for the stronger drive of his money lust.
 
And finally, it is the story of Kester Woodseaves, whose steady love for all created things leads him to resist people's cruelty toward nature and each other, and whose love for Prue Sarn enables him to discern her natural loveliness beneath her blighted appearance. 

Rebecca West, a contemporary of Mary Webb, called her, simply, "a genius," and G. K. Chesterton, another contemporary, asserted: "the light in the stories . . . is a light not shining on the things but through them."
 
Critic Hilda Addison summed up Precious Bane: "The book opens with one of those simple sentences which haunt the mind until the curiosity has been satisfied . . . It strikes a note which never fails throughout; it opens with a beauty which is justified to the last sentence."
 
When the book was first published in 1926 in America, the New York Times Book Review predicted: " on some bookshelves, we feel sure, Precious Bane will find almost a hallowed place." 

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Title	:	Precious Bane
Author	:	Mary Webb
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 328 pages
Published	:	August 31st 1990 by University of Notre Dame Press (first published 1924)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance

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When you read most history books, you get a lot of trees and not much forest. You read that Napoleon conquered but you don't really understand or feel what the people felt as they were living in those times. Understanding Napoleon is important, but I think it is just as important to know how people made their lives in times and places that are so different than ours."Precious Bane" takes place in a galaxy far far away. A very isolated English rural village, Sarn, circa 1810. The heroine,



Honest emotion beautifully expressed. It took a while getting into the book because of the dialect, but after I did I loved it. One of the best books I've read.

I fell in love with dear Prue and will definitely revisit this one someday. This is not a happy read, but I found it profound. Prue is a mystic and one of the most gentle souls I have encountered in literature and I am quite smitten! There are a lot of superstitions and odd beliefs to be found in this book but that is also intriguing to me as some of these traditions came over with my ancestors and I recognized some of our family habits in these practices. I have to record some of my favorite

FINISHED (14 March 2019)Having read Gone to Earth a few years back, I vowed to read everything that I could find by Mary Webb. It has taken me a while but, for my second novel by this author, I finally got to Precious Bane. It is a treasure through and through, filled with so much wisdom and marvellous descriptions of the natural world and of the many quirky characters. I can't remember where I read it, but Mary Webb has been called a genius. I am beginning to be of the same opinion. The prose

This is my number one favorite novel of all time. I can't really define the reason I love it so much. Sure, there's the lyrical writing, the sweet-yet-spunky protagonist, the gorgeous setting, and the best love story of all time. But there's something beyond all that which touches my soul. I always know I'll be life-long friends with anyone else who has ever read and loved this book.

This book had never come across my radar before we chose it as a Book Club selection. Thanks be to the Book Club! We had a great discussion and once again, I am just thankful for those ladies who brighten up my every third Wednesday by sharing our joy of reading and bringing into my life books that I would never have known. I read some of the Goodreads reviews, and it turns out that everyone of the disposition to read a book like this - exploring human nature, bringing the reader into the