Gone to Earth (Paperback)

from startingover

Mary Webb is the unfashionable author of rural novels of the kind parodied so sharply and hilariously by Stella Gibbons in Cold Comfort Farm. If you can get past the unintentionally amusing dialogue, however, there is more to this novel than romantic melodrama and, while she's hardly the equal of...

from cissa

This was an interesting book, and more compelling than I'd expected it to be. It's very didactic and philosophical, but the gist of the plot (in modern terms)is of a young and naive woman torn between the desires of a Nice Guy (tm) and a Bad Boy. It is very clear that neither of them are more con...

from mahallett

really didn't like this at first. started reading about 1 chapter every other day. then I got into it and then I didn't like the ending.

from startingover

Mary Webb is the unfashionable author of rural novels of the kind parodied so sharply and hilariously by Stella Gibbons in Cold Comfort Farm. If you can get past the unintentionally amusing dialogue, however, there is more to this novel than romantic melodrama and, while she's hardly the equal of...

from jayne_charles

This was like Thomas Hardy mixed up with Jane Austen with a smattering of DH Lawrence and an extra helping of melodrama at the end. It was a reasonable story, but it helps if you like lots of descriptions of nature and fey characters. An understanding of Potteries dialect would help too.