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The Pool in the Desert

By Rosemary Sullivan , Sara Jeannette Duncan , Gillian Siddall

Book information

Publisher
Broadview Press
Year
2001
ISBN
1-55111-153-5, 9781551111537
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10938616 bytes)
Series
Broadview Literary Texts
Pages
243\244
Time added
2018-02-18 10:30:00

Description

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.

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