Hester Paperback / softback
by Margaret Oliphant
Edited by Philip (, Professor of English, University of Liverpool) Davis, Brian (, Senior Honorary Fellow, English Department, University of Liverpool) Nellist
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
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'Human nature may be easy to see through, but it is very hard to understand.'The ageing Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world as head of the family bank.
She thinks she sees through everyone and rules over a family of dependents with knowing cynicism.
But there are two people in Redborough who resist her.
One is Hester, a young relation with a personality as strong as Catherine's, and as determined to find a role for herself.
The other is Edward, Catherine's favourite, whom she treats like a son.
Conflict between young and old is inevitable, and in its depiction of the complex relationships that develop between the three principal characters, Publishing October 2003 (exact date?)Margaret Oliphant is one of the great Victorian novelists, and this edition establishes her rediscovered importance.
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- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:23/04/2009
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- ISBN:9780199555499
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:23/04/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199555499
