Miss Willie (Piney Ridge #2)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. 2nd Edition. Hardcover textured. Very Good-Collectible/Good. FIRST PRINTING. 5.75"x8.5" 268 numbered pages. Midnight blue textured cloth boards w/gilt letters on front and spine. Author photo by Charles Holbert. Family Bookshelf Edition. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (price), & unmarked. DJ has old tape on tears on backside of DJ. One soft bump. Severe wear to DJ w/faded spine, titled traced w/ink. Foxing to edges. Secure ship w/track #. Miss Willie, first published in 1951, is part of Giles's Piney Ridge Trilogy. It tells the story of an earnest teacher who moves to the hills of Kentucky to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. Zealously, she tries to change the ways of the stubborn and proud Appalachian people, but to no avail. They listen to her ideas about sanitation and other foolishness because to argue would be rude. But in the end they quietly go about their accustomed ways. Ultimately, Miss Willie realizes that the hill customs have a beauty and dignity of their own and that some of her efforts to reform them were ill-conceived. Her warmth, generosity, and humor help her bridge the gap and find fulfillment in Piney Ridge. This is a story of reconciliation and the coming together of two different ways of life. Above all, it is a story of people and of the land to which they belong. Publisher

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