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The Wheat Princess

Jean Webster

Book Overview: 

Marcia Copley, an American Heiress, comes to Rome. Typically for the period, she may want to attract an aristocrat. He brings the title, she brings the money to support it. Her adventures in Rome are different than she anticipated. Rich and poor live side by side, and the author does her best to describe both walks of life vividly and truthfully. Jean Webster is the author of Daddy Long Legs and Dear Enemy. This particular novel would also please fans of Henry James and George Gissing.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .y; ‘and in my opinion, if the foreigner comes to-day, he will not prosper in the villa.’

40 Domenico nodded approvingly.

‘Si, si, Tommaso is right. The Americano has already tempted heaven far enough in this matter of the wheat, and it will not be the part of wisdom for him to add to the account. Apoplexies are as likely to fall on princes as on bakers, and a dead prince is no different from any other dead man—only that he goes to purgatory.’

It was evident, however, that the foreigner was in truth going to tempt Fate; for in the afternoon two empty carriages came back from the villa and turned toward Palestrina, obviously bound for the station. All the ragazzi of Castel Vivalanti waited on the road to see them pass and beg for coppers; and it was just as Domenico had foretold: they never received a single soldo.

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Community Reviews

Se avete amato "Orgoglio e pregiudizio" di Jane Austen, "Cime Tempestose" di Emily Brontë e "Camera con vista" di Edward Morgan Forster, amerete sicuramente anche questo libro. Intenso e romantico, "La Principessa del Grano" ci conferma l’indiscusso talento di Jean Webster, finora nota esclusivament

Se avete amato "Orgoglio e pregiudizio" di Jane Austen, "Cime Tempestose" di Emily Brontë e "Camera con vista" di Edward Morgan Forster, amerete sicuramente anche questo libro. Intenso e romantico, "La Principessa del Grano" ci conferma l’indiscusso talento di Jean Webster, finora nota esclusivament

This is a slow simmer romance about an heiress who is too self-absorbed and busy living the high life to notice the hunger at her doorstep, or at least, around her. The hero, who is too sensitive to the cause of the starving farmers, judges the heroine as a dimwit moron. On her part, the heroine doe

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