The pool in the desert
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The pool in the desert
（Broadview literary texts）
Broadview Press, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243)
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Description
In The Pool in the Desert, first published in 1903, Sara Jeannette Duncan explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian India. In the four stories collected here-"The Pool in the Desert," "A Mother in India," "An Impossible Ideal," and "The Hesitation of Miss Anderson"-Duncan's women have certain freedoms living amidst the reaches of Empire, but they also must negotiate their way through a landscape dominated by the constraints of small military societies. The stories that result combine a delicacy of manners and movement that recalls Henry James, with a wit and sharp eye for small town foibles that bring Stephen Leacock to mind.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction (by Rosemary Sullivan)
Sara Jeannette Duncan: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Pool in the Desert
The Pool in the Desert
A Mother in India
An Impossible Ideal
The Hesitation of Miss Anderson
Appendix A: Excerpts from A Social Departure
Appendix B: Excerpts from The Crow's Nest
Appendix C: "The Flippancy of Anglo-India"
Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews
Times Literary Supplement (October 2, 1903)
The Spectator (October 31, 1903)
The Critic
The Athenceum (November 7, 1903)
New York Times (October 31,1903)
The Academy and Literature (October 3, 1903)
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