Rosa Mundi and Other Stories (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Dell, Ethel M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331089042 ISBN 13: 9781331089049

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Rosa Mundi and Other Stories

Was the water blue, or was it purple that day? Randal Courteney stretched his lazy length on the shady side of the great natural breakwater that protected Hurley Bay from the Atlantic rollers, and wondered. It was a day in late September, but the warmth Of it was as a dream of summer returned. The season was nearly over, or he had not betaken himself thither, but the spell Of heat had prolonged it unduly. It had been some thing Of a shock to him to find the place still Occupied by a buzzing crowd Of visitors. He never came to it till he judged the holidays to be practically over. For he loved it only when empty. His idea of rest was solitude.

He wondered how long this pearly weather would last, and scanned the sky for a cloud. In vain! There was no cloud all round that blue horizon, and behind him the cliffs stood stark against an azure sky. Summer was lingering, and even he had not the heart to wish her gone.

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About the Author:

Ethel Dell's married name is recorded as Ethel Mary Savage. She was born in Streatham, a suburb of London. Her father was a clerk in the City of London and she had an older sister and brother. Her family was middle class and lived a comfortable life. Ethel Dell was a very shy, quiet girl and was content to be dominated by her family. She began to write stories while very young and many of them were published in popular magazines. Beneath her shy exterior, she had a passionate heart and most of her stories were stories of passion and love set in India and other British colonial possessions. They were considered to be very racy and her cousins would pull out pencils to try and count up the number of times she used the words: passion, tremble, pant and thrill. Ethel Dell worked on a novel for several years, but it was rejected by eight publishers. Finally the publisher T. Fisher Unwin bought the book for their First Novel Library, a series which introduced a writer's first book. This book, titled The Way of an Eagle, was published in 1912 and by 1915 it had gone through thirty printings. The Way of an Eagle is very characteristic of Ethel M. Dell's novels. There is a very feminine woman, an alpha male, a setting in India, passion galore liberally mixed with some surprisingly shocking violence and religious sentiments sprinkled throughout.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1331089042
• ISBN 13: 9781331089049
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 402