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The Pagan Madonna
Harold MacGrath
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The Pagan Madonna, one of Harold MacGrath's numerous novels, set in Shanghai, tells a story of intrigue, murder, and illicit art “collecting.” The paths of Jean Norman, a Red Cross nurse from the United States, Ling Foo, a shifty pawn shop keeper, and Anthony Cleigh, millionaire art collector, cross and recross in growing intrigue over a string of beads. It is a world where “. . . every move you make is governed by Chance--the Blind Madonna of the Pagan .
The Pagan Madonna, one of Harold MacGrath's numerous novels, set in Shanghai, tells a story of intrigue, murder, and illicit art “collecting.” The paths of Jean Norman, a Red Cross nurse from the United States, Ling Foo, a shifty pawn shop keeper, and Anthony Cleigh, millionaire art collector, cross and recross in growing intrigue over a string of beads. It is a world where “. . . every move you make is governed by Chance--the Blind Madonna of the Pagan .
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Marriage. Outside of books, what was it save a legal contract to cook and bear children in exchange for food and clothes? The humdrum! She flung out her arms with a gesture of rage. She had been cheated, as always. She had come to this side of the world expecting colour, movement, adventure. The Orient of the novels she had read—where was it? Drab skies, drab people, drab work! And now to return to America, to exchange one drab job for another! Nadir, always nadir, never any zenith!
Her bitter cogitations were interrup. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
A little repetitive in places, but the characters and plot are truly engaging. I couldn't help but laugh on a number of occasions at their plight and the games they all played. It's a quick and entertaining read.
Cute old fashioned , improbable
It's a fantastic love story.
Girl meets boy. Girl also dreams of adventure, gets abducted, and then the scoundrel takes over. Boy has his issues with his father. It's a grand love story with an adventure.
Harold MacGrath’s intriguing novel
This novel was written in 1921, which is re-created in a digital format, by the bestselling American novelist Harold MacGrath. The Pagan Madonna is one of a number of novels and short stories he wrote, and some of his novels have made into movies during the Hollywo
A thoroughly good read.
In the beginning we are in Shanghai and the story starts with a theft of glass beads (of course that's not clear to begin with; well the beads are clear because they're glass, but no one knows that, I mean, they know the beads are clear but they don't know they're glass so it
Not sure what I expected with this book and the title thereof, but I found the story a very enjoyable drama with the characters handled deftly handled. It is a end of the war story as a young woman and a captain are returning to America from Russia and they get caught up in a grand theft and kidnapp