Description

Published 1950: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original red cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 303 clean and bright pages, speckled foxing on the endpapers and edges, previous owners signature on the first free page. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time consistent with age. (RB412)

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Kim, of Virginia Hill aristocracy, marries the feud minded Lance Dawson after the Civil War and helps him to break away from his ruined plantation and head north to the all fields of Pennsylvania. There she faces not only his weakness and illness due to his war wounds but also the drama and hardship of the new life and Lance' inability to bend her to him pride and will. For Kim does the wrong thing -- at the wrong time -- she saves lance from a bully's beating, she acknowledges his life with his mistress, she recognises and respects the love of Great house, Pitholo's most powerful oil man, and she proves herself the stronger of the two. There is the background of the mounting boom of Pithole the all strikes that pushed it into national fame and local extravagance, the collapse of the sudden fortunes when oil runs out and fire wracks everything. Great house is wiped out -- and dies but lan his money safe at home, is in the clear -- and it is with him that Kim returns to her country. The high colour here is a fevered flash and although the setting is believable, Kim is a difficult heroine.

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