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    Odette: A Fairy Tale for Weary People
    Odette: A Fairy Tale for Weary People
    Odette: A Fairy Tale for Weary People
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    Odette: A Fairy Tale for Weary People

    By Ronald Firbank

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    Odette: A Fairy Tale For Weary People is a short story by Ronald Firbank. Odette is a young girl living in the city of Tours, France; and is adamant that she has the capability to see the Virgin Mary for herself.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 3, 2019
    ISBN4057664572981
    Odette: A Fairy Tale for Weary People
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    Ronald Firbank

    Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was born in London in 1886 and was an experimental novelist. Throughout his career he has been championed by English novelists including E.M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Alan Hollinghurst and Simon Raven, writing novels such as Valmouth and The Flower Beneath the Foot and six other short novels. He died in Rome in 1926 and is buried in the Campo Verano cemetery.

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      Odette - Ronald Firbank

      Ronald Firbank

      Odette: A Fairy Tale for Weary People

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664572981

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      IN the long summer evenings, when the shadows crept slowly over the lawn, and the distant towers of the cathedral turned purple in the setting sun, little Odette d’Antrevernes would steal out from the old grey chateau to listen to the birds murmuring good-night to one another amongst the trees.

      Far away, at the end of the long avenue of fragrant limes, wound the Loire, all amongst the flowery meadows and emerald vineyards, like a wonderful looking-glass reflecting all the sky; and across the river, like an ogre’s castle in a fairy tale, frowned the chateau of Luynes, with its round grey turrets and its long, thin windows, so narrow, that scarcely could a princess in distress put

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