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Rare and modern books

Eggleston, Magdelana

Mountain Shadows

William Heinemann / British Book Service (Canada), 1955

30.00 €

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Year of publication
1955
Place of printing
Toronto
Author
Eggleston, Magdelana
Publishers
William Heinemann / British Book Service (Canada)
Edition
First Edition.
Keyword
CANADA ALBERTA LITHUANIANS IN CANADA LITHUANIAN CANADIAN WRITER, IMMIGRANTS ON CANADA
Cover description
Near Fine - Slight Chips
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

".the story has as a background the hills and the Rocky Mountains of Alberta; in the foreground are the mining centre of Coaltown and, living in it, a young girl of nearly seventeen - not a fairytale heroine, but a delightful person, natural, impressionable and intensely alive. Her name is Maggy Mileris and she is the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants, for Coaltown is a 'little Europe' and contains no less than thirty-five different nationalities working and living there, not to mention the gypsies who come and go, and the pedlar, Eli Kharam. Like most communities, only a little more so, Coaltown is full of snobberies, and Maggy, who had never thought that nationality was important, soon finds that other people think it is." Jackety now protexted in a plastic sleeve