Ladies of Missalonghi Contributor(s): McCullough, Colleen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0380704587 ISBN-13: 9780380704583 Publisher: Avon Books OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: April 1988 Annotation: In Missalonghi, on Missy Wright's family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains, It's a brand new century--the twentieth--a time for new thoughts and bold new actions. And Missy is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging! |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Romance - Historical - General - Fiction | Humorous - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 4.23" W x 6.83" (0.21 lbs) 192 pages |
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Publisher Description: Sometimes fairy toles can come true-even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicianor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to aquiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifullysmall homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But It's a brandnew century-the twentieth-a time for new thoughts and boldnew actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging. Because she hasjust set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted and unsuspectingstranger ... who just might be Prince-Charming in disguise. |
Contributor Bio(s): McCullough, Colleen: - Colleen McCullough is the author of The Thorn Birds, Tim, An Indecent Obsession, A Creed for the Third Millennium, The Ladies of Missalonghi, The First Man in Rome, The Grass Crown, Fortune's Favorites, Caesar's Women, Caesar, and other novels. She lives with her husband on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific. |