Name: Gone to Earth
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Author: Webb, Mary
ISBN: 9781534823433

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mary Webb

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

212

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 17.8 x 1.1 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9781534823433

Synopsis "Gone to Earth"

Gone to EarthMary WebbEnglish ClassicsMary Webb (25 March 1881 - 8 October 1927) was an English romantic novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people which she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably the film Gone to Earth in 1950 by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. They inspired the famous parody Cold Comfort Farm.Gone to Earth is the story of Hazel Woodus, a child of nature who simply wants to be herself, living among the remote Shropshire hills of the Welsh Marches with her harpist coffin-building father. She is reluctantly drawn into the world of romantic human relationships through her great beauty, marrying a local church minister, but also becomes the object of the local fox-hunting squire's obsessive love. Hazel is chased over the edge of a quarry trying to save her beloved pet fox from the local hunt. The title, of course, is the hutsman's cry denoting that the fox had escaped into its den. Gone to Earth was filmed in 1950 by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Jennifer Jones as Hazel Woodus. However, it was later re-edited, shortened and retitled for its American release, and fell into relative obscurity. In 1985, the full 110-minute restored version was released by the National Film Archive, to critical acclaim.

Mary Webb

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(Shropshire 1881 - St. Leonards on Sea 1927) was an English novelist and poet. She began writing when she was ten years old, but always ended up burning all her poems. However, once her brother read one and without telling her, he took it to the Shrewsbury Chronicle, which published it anonymously. Mary was amazed at the warm reception it received. From the age of twenty, Mary Webb had developed Graves-Basedow disease, and that suffering, as well as her longing for Shropshire, would inspire her for Precious Bane (1924). Despite winning the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse with this novel, she did not achieve success until after her early death in 1927, when Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin referred to her as "a forgotten genius".

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