| The Heart of the Desert by Honore Willsie Morrow, Fiction, Classics, Literary Contributor(s): Morrow, Honore Willsie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1603127372 ISBN-13: 9781603127370 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2007 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Honor Willsie Morrow was an Iowa native with a love of history. She spent ten years researching Abraham Lincoln and produced the Great Captain trilogy -- "Forever Free" (1927), "With Malice Toward None" (1928) and "The Last Full Measure" (1930). She wrote Western stories and for "Collier"'s and "Harper's Weekly," and was editor of a woman's magazine called "The Delineator" from 1914 to 1919. In "The Heart of the Desert," the subject is inter-racial romance. Ruth Clifford has come to the desert seeking a cure for her melancholia. She meets Kut-Le, an educated Indian, and a friendship blossoms when he saves her from a tarantula. He offers to take her into the desert and cure her, but racial prejudice forces her to reject him and state they are not to meet again. He kidnaps her instead, taking her to the desert to effect a cure, while a posse is formed to find her. Will the ending be the triumph of love over prejudice, or the tragedy of loss and death due to misunderstanding? |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.83 lbs) 160 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Morrow, Honore Willsie: - Nora Bryant McCue was born on February 19, 1880, at Ottumwa, Iowa, the daughter of William Dunbar and Lily Bryant Head McCue. Her family moved to Madison, Wisconsin, when she was a small child, where her father worked for a local railroad line and later as a clerk at the federal courthouse. Nora was the salutatorian of her senior class at Madison Central High School in 1898 and went on to attend the University of Wisconsin, where she majored in history. It was said that Nora, who was a tall, striking brunette, cut quite a figure on campus while walking Cedric, her Great Dane. Nora's father was appalled when a few years earlier she had spent $50 of her savings to purchase Cedric, then a two-month-old puppy. On August 1, 1904, she married Henry Elmer Willsie, in Madison. Willsie was a consulting mining engineer and inventor who would later help develop a gas mask for the military during World War I. It was while she and her husband were living in Arizona that Nora began her writing career by submitting western stories and articles under the name "Honore Willsie" to Collier's magazine and Harper's Weekly. Her first novel, "Heart of the Desert: Kut-Le of the Desert," was published in 1913. The following year she began a five-year stint as editor of The Delineator, a women's magazine about "Fashion, Fine Arts and Culture." |
