The peppered moth
(Book)
Author
Published
San Diego : Harcourt, 2002.
Format
Book
Edition
First Harvest edition.
ISBN
0156007193, 9780156007191
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 21 cm
Status
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Published
San Diego : Harcourt, 2002.
Edition
First Harvest edition.
Language
English
ISBN
0156007193, 9780156007191
Notes
Description
In the early 1900s, Bessie Bawtry, a small child with big notions, lives in a South Yorkshire mining town in England. Precocious and refined in a land of little ambition and much mining grime, Bessie waits for the day she can escape the bleak, coarse existence her ancestors had seldom questioned. Nearly a century later Bessie's granddaughter, Faro Gaulden, is listening to a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has returned to the depressed little town in which Bessie grew up and wonders at the families who never left. Confronted with what would have been her life had her grandmother stayed, she finds herself faced with difficult questions. Is she really so different from the South Yorkshire locals? As she soon learns, the past has a way of reasserting itself-not unlike the peppered moth that was once thought to be nearing extinction but is now enjoying a sudden unexplained resurgence. The peppered moth is a brilliant novel, full of irony, sadness, and humor.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Bawtry family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Breaseborough (South Yorkshire, England : Parish) -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
England -- Fiction.
English fiction -- 21st century.
Families -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Novels.
South Yorkshire (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Breaseborough (South Yorkshire, England : Parish) -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
England -- Fiction.
English fiction -- 21st century.
Families -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Novels.
South Yorkshire (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Drabble, M. (2002). The peppered moth (First Harvest edition.). Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Drabble, Margaret, 1939-. 2002. The Peppered Moth. Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Drabble, Margaret, 1939-. The Peppered Moth Harcourt, 2002.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Drabble, Margaret. The Peppered Moth First Harvest edition., Harcourt, 2002.
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