In its brief span, however, The Jade Cabinet, contains many of her finest moments, The story of The Jade Cabinet is that of Radulph Tubbs’ pursuit, marriage, and loss of Etheria Sphery, sister of the narrator. Tubbs, pure Walrus, is a wonderful grotesque, an English industrialist who dotes on Stilton cheese and builds a home that is to be a Temple to Industry and Infancy. · Find The Jade Cabinet by Ducornet, Rikki at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria's own Dragon of Industry. The novel travels from Oxford to Egypt where one million ibis mummies /10().
Following the novel is an afterword, "Waking to Eden," in which Ducornet reflects on the sources for her writing and on the quartet of novels completed by The Jade Cabinet."--Jacket. Local notes: Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 is first printing and has black and white cover. Posted on by Rikki Ducornet The Jade Cabinet Made speechless by her eccentric father the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade Memory her sister tells her story that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangut. Jade Cabinet by Ducornet, Rikki and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru
The Jade Cabinet Rikki Ducornet, Author Dalkey Archive Press $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. The Burden of Strangeness: Rikki Ducornet; OTHER BOOKS. In its brief span, however, The Jade Cabinet, contains many of her finest moments, The story of The Jade Cabinet is that of Radulph Tubbs’ pursuit, marriage, and loss of Etheria Sphery, sister of the narrator. Tubbs, pure Walrus, is a wonderful grotesque, an English industrialist who dotes on Stilton cheese and builds a home that is to be a Temple to Industry and Infancy. View Notes - The Jade Cabinet from ENGL at University of Houston. The Jade Cabinet Rikki Ducornet In the `s there began a whole tradition of feminist literature-much of it rather crude.
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