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To Have and To Hold Mary Johnston
Mary Johnston
To Have and To Hold Mary Johnston
Mary Johnston
This was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1900, made into movies several times in subsequent years. It is set in colonial North America, beginning in the year 1621. A new movie adapted from the book was filmed in 2011. The dialog is Early Modern English, somewhat similar to Shakespeare's writings, not contemporary English but similar enough to be understood. The narration is almost modern English, easily understood. An English soldier, Ralph Percy, turned Virginian explorer in Jamestown colony, buys a wife -- a girl named Jocelyn Leigh -- not knowing that she is the escaped ward of King James I, fleeing a forced marriage to Lord Carnal. Jocelyn has no love for Ralph at first; she even seems to abhor him and explains she only married to have refuge after she fled from England, under an assumed name. Lord Carnal, Jocelyn's husband-to-be, eventually comes to Jamestown to find his promised bride, not knowing that Ralph Percy and Jocelyn Leigh are already man and wife.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 2, 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9781541397590 |
Publishers | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
Pages | 250 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 14 mm · 371 g |
Language | English |
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