Lynne Reid Banks THE DUNGEON First Edition Signed
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Lynne Reid Banks THE DUNGEON First Edition Signed
First edition, first print hardback of THE DUNGEON, by Lynne Reid Banks and published by HarperCollins Publishers, London, in 2002. Signed by Reid Banks on the title page. 'Signed Copy' sticker to front cover. With full numberline 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page.The book is in very good condition (Clean blue cloth boards with white lettering on spine) with only minor shelf wear to the dust jacket, which is price clipped (light creasing to edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions. There is some tanning to the pages.
Lynne Reid Banks is a British author of books for children and adults. She has written forty books, including the best-selling children's novel The Indian in the Cupboard, which has sold over 10 million copies and been made into a popular feature film.
Banks was born in London, the only child of James and Muriel Reid Banks. She was evacuated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada during World War II but returned after the war was over. She attended St Teresa's School in Surrey. Prior to becoming a writer Banks was an actress, and also worked as a television journalist in Britain, one of the first women to do so. Her first novel, the ground-breaking, post-war, feminist novel, The L-Shaped Room, was published in 1960.
In 1962 Banks emigrated to Israel, where she taught for eight years on an Israeli kibbutz Yasur. In 1965 she married Chaim Stephenson, with whom she had three sons. In 1971 she returned to England with her family. For fourteen years they lived in London, and Lynne wrote full-time, producing books and plays, short stories and articles.
"Bruce McLennan stared down into the newly excavated depths. At the moment there was just a hole in the ground. But he could already see - a dungeon...
A medieval tragedy and tale of retribution The Dungeon is a powerful story from a writer of great skill and potency.
The setting is medieval Scotland, a land dominated by skirmishes and battles on the borders, a land of fortresses and castles in Scotland, England and Wales. We meet Bruce McLennan, a Scottish laird, a man sorely-changed by a terrible family tragedy. He is a domineering master, an uncaring landlord, a cruel man, who has his heart set on building himself a castle and a Dungeon in which to punish his enemies in the future. But while the dungeon is being built, McLennan plans a trip to the far ends of the earth.
As we follow McLennan on his travels to China and beyond, we witness his buying of Peony, or Mudan, as her Chinese name is, a young girl who McLennan uses as a slave. He is uncaring, unsympathetic, as he drags her after him across the world. Gradually, knowing no other, Peony develops a kind of affection for her master.
In Scotland, Peony meets Fin, a stable lad and a loving friendship develops between them. McLennan, busy fighting off enemies, uses Peony in an horrific scene in one of his battles; he looses badly and subsequently blames her. He decides to punish her by throwing her in his dungeon then unfolds a ghastly scene where Peony kills herself, at last in control of her own destiny. McLennan dies of guilt, shame and remorse. Fin lives on, and even Peony, perhaps, in his new baby sister."
'A scary, ambitious, exciting story...it will enthral.' The Times
221 pages.
ISBN: 0 00 713777 X
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