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MILLER, HELEN TOPPING Proud Young Thing: A Romantic Novel of Eighteenth Century Charleston
Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. 1952. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. BOOK CLUB HARDCOVER. Dust jacket edge wear & tear, pages toned, sticker on front free endpaper, foxing on page ridges, shelf wear. "South Carolina in the days of the Lord Proprietors provides a rich background for Mrs. Miller's latest novel of adventure and romance. Against an atmosphere made highly flammable by rebellion against the absentee landlords and by the constant menace of Indians and hostile Spaniards, Mrs. Miller tells an exciting and warmly satisfying story with her customary skill. It was far from safe to be a stranger in Charlestown in those turbulent days. Dirk was surrounded by suspicion because he had escaped from a pirate ship and was strangely silent about his past. Several people knew that he had buried the body of a Spanish spy. It seemed that Dirk, too, was a spy. Only proud Harriott, who had loved the spy, had reason to know otherwise. Headstrong and Imogene set her cap for Dirk, and he was temporarily attracted to her. Yet he could not forge the beautiful and indifferent Harriott. As Dirk became more deeply involved in the political unrest of the colony, he was confronted by a greater danger than the coldness of the townspeople. Ledou, captain of the pirate ship from which he had escaped, reappears. Dirk determines to kill him. To the resolutionof this situation, and to Dirk's final conquest of Harriott, Mrs. Miller brings the entertaining talent that has won for her so large and constant a following.".
Offered for US$ 4.50 by: Yesterday's Muse Books - Book number: 069771