Banner by the WaysideRandom house, 1947 - 442 páginas "This is a picaresque novel set pre-Civil War on the Erie Canal. Durie Edwards is a female foundling, raised as a boy in a bookshop. She falls in with traveling players, thieves, con men, disreputable women (and men), as she tries to sort out the truth from the pious lies told to her, and eventually finding love. Durie's essential innocence is used to bring out the characters of the people she meets. Life on the canal boats is, as far as I can tell, accurately presented. It's a slice of Americana."--Goodreads |
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... troupe , Fate soon threw her into the company of Jans , wandering in search of adventure after Harvard had expelled him for his wildness . Through the Erie Canal country the troupe traveled , and against a curtain of vivid action , in ...
... troupe , Fate soon threw her into the company of Jans , wandering in search of adventure after Harvard had expelled him for his wildness . Through the Erie Canal country the troupe traveled , and against a curtain of vivid action , in ...
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... troupe in emergency . The other was a hybrid contraption , bearing the treasury - no great burden- the trunks , and three or four emergency hammocks . When the weather was too foul to face , everybody piled into one or the other , and ...
... troupe in emergency . The other was a hybrid contraption , bearing the treasury - no great burden- the trunks , and three or four emergency hammocks . When the weather was too foul to face , everybody piled into one or the other , and ...
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Samuel Hopkins Adams. " A third , " said Jans . " Fetch your troupe , " said Mine Host . Pleased at the prospect of a roof over their heads again and regular meals assured to their stomachs , the troupe set to work upon a programme ...
Samuel Hopkins Adams. " A third , " said Jans . " Fetch your troupe , " said Mine Host . Pleased at the prospect of a roof over their heads again and regular meals assured to their stomachs , the troupe set to work upon a programme ...
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