Towers in the Mist - Softcover

Elizabeth Goudge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1619706326 ISBN 13: 9781619706323

Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

'One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceaseless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.' Elizabeth Goudge, Towers in the Mist. It is late sixteenth-century London when awkward teenage Faithful travels to Oxford to study in England s great university. When Canon Leigh takes him in, Faithful enters into a family as exciting and educational as the university itself. Woven into the narratives of Faithful and the canon s daughter Joyeuce is Oxford during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I with the pomp and sordidness of the spectacular era of England s Golden Age. Not only a historical journey, Towers in the Mist is also a coming-of-age tale of young love and hope.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Goudge (1900 1984) was a British novelist born into the home of an Anglican priest and theologian. She wrote children s books as well as novels her Green Dolphin Street was made into a 1947 Academy-Award winning film. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she won the Carnegie Award in 1947 for The Little White Horse, which is J. K. Rowling s favorite children s book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1619706326
• ISBN 13: 9781619706323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 377