The Curse of the Wise Woman
The Curse of the Wise Woman

Author: Lord Dunsany

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1479473820

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In the 1890s, a motherless teenager whose father has been forced to flee the country is left in charge of the family estates. He uses his freedom to indulge his love of field sports, focusing especially on wildfowl-shooting on a nearby peat bog. When he discovers the bog is threatened by an industrial peat-cutting syndicate, he finds no effective ally—except an old woman who believes herself to be a wise woman...a witch!

The Curse of the Wise Woman (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
The Curse of the Wise Woman (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Author: Lord Dunsany

Publisher:

Published: 2014-11-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781941147399

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After his father's interference in Irish politics ends with a band of killers arriving on Christmas night to assassinate him, young Charles Peridore finds himself master of the estate. During idyllic school holidays, Charles enjoys riding to hounds and hunting geese and snipe while his friend Tommy Marlin tells stories of Tir-nan-Og, the land of eternal youth that lies just beyond the bog. But when Progress arrives in the form of an English corporation determined to convert the landscape into factories and housing, it appears that an entire way of life is destined to vanish. Only one thing stands in the way: the sorcery of an old witch, whose curses the English workers do not even believe in. In the novel's unforgettable conclusion, the ancient powers of the wise woman will be pitted against the machinery of modern corporate greed, with surprising and thrilling results.