· Precious Bane is set in the early part of the nineteenth century, at a time when rural communities were still remote, self-contained and steeped in folklore, superstition and religious bigotry; on the cusp of the change to mechanized agriculture, travel, communication and the modern world. For all its remoteness, it was a vibrant, ecologically rich countryside, with a visceral – and to Mary Webb, Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. · The Shropshire novelist's Precious Bane shares Hardy's love of melodrama, but has a more rounded grasp of human nature. The Shropshire countryside Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. · Published in , Precious Bane is a novel by Mary Webb ( - ) which touches on ambition, prejudice and hatred but also on the power of love. Prue Sarn is a farm girl in rural Shropshire during the period of the Napoleonic Wars and is viewed with suspicion by the local community because of having been born with a harelip.
Stanley Baldwin read Mary Webb's Precious Bane at Christmas , less than a year before her death. It was, he wrote, "the fresh and crushing answer" to the "stupid urban view of the countryside as dull One who reads some passage in Whitehall almost has the physical sense of being in Shropshire cornfields.". Mary Webb was born - and Precious Bane was published in I had read several of Mary Webb's novels before and always found them engaging and compelling. Similar in atmosphere to Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbevilles" it captures a great feeling of the remoteness of the countryside and the isolation that the characters live with. Precious Bane [] [DVD] Precious Bane [] [DVD] John Bowe (actor) Janet McTeer (actor) Clive Owen (actor) Format: all-region dvd (worldwide) The movie stays true to the original story by Mary Webb and is riveting from beginning to end. Price: £ FREE worldwide shipping This item is in stock: click for full size Precious Bane.
With the publication of Precious Bane, a substantial readership came to respect Mary Webb's quiet genius; and it is for this country classic that she has been remembered ever since. When she died at the age of 46, literature lost a voice that promised to speak for Shropshire as poignantly as Thomas Hardy had spoken for Wessex, Emily Bronte for Yorkshire― New York Times. Precious Bane is a novel by Mary Webb, first published in It won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Prize. In the book was made into a six-part BBC television drama series starring Patrick Troughton and Daphne Slater. Under its French title 'Sarn', it was produced as a television play by French Television ORTF in , with Dominique Labourier as Prue, Josep Maria Flotats as Gedeon and Pierre Vaneck as Kester; the director was Claude Santelli. Mary Webb was born – and Precious Bane was published in I had read several of Mary Webb's novels before and always found them engaging and compelling. Similar in atmosphere to Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbevilles" it captures a great feeling of the remoteness of the countryside and the isolation that the characters live with.
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