ALICE MUNRO - The Beggar Maid : Stories of Flo and Rose
London England, Penguin, 1980. 1st Penguin Edition, Binding: Soft Cover, Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0140054006 Paperback Paperback. Old price crossed out and previous owners initial to inside cover. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. As a child Rose had a hard life. Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, she battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd stepmother, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Torono where she married Patrick; for him she was his Beggar Maid, 'meek and voluptuous, with her shy white feet', and he was her knight, content to sit and adore her..210 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) .
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