| To Have And To Hold Contributor(s): Johnston, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 1539587002 ISBN-13: 9781539587002 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $12.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.93 lbs) 314 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To Have and to Hold (1899) is a novel by American author Mary Johnston. Published byHoughton Mifflin, it was the bestselling novel in the United States in the following year (1900) To Have and to Hold is the story of an English soldier, Ralph Percy, turned Virginian explorer in colonial Jamestown. Ralph buys a wife for himself - a girl named Jocelyn Leigh - little knowing that she is the escaping ward of King James I, fleeing a forced marriage to Lord Carnal. Jocelyn hardly loves Ralph - indeed, she seems to abhor him. Carnal, Jocelyn's husband-to-be, eventually comes to Jamestown, unaware that Ralph Percy and Jocelyn Leigh are man and wife. |
