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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780595301058
ISBN number: 0595301053
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Page Count: 484
Printing Date: November 13, 2003
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Mary's Land is a novel of Lord Baltimore's rowdy colony in 1638. Kirkus Review calls it a 'stylish, superior historical... a richly detailed, very first rate tale' with, 'memorable characters, scenes, and lilting dialogue.'
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I am in agreement with the reviewer who stated that this was the very first novel they'd read by Robson, and would also be the last. Too much historical detail, two-dimensional characters, and I'm no prude, but I found this novel at times to be both vulgar and disgusting. I'm ashamed to say I was born in the same town as this author. If you want a more accurate portrait of the fair state of Maryland, you'd be much better served by reading "Chesapeake" by James A. Michener, "Annapolis" by William Martin, or the "Wild Swan" trilogy by Celeste de Blasis. Don't waste your time with this trash.
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I recently visited historic St. Mary's City and then decided to pull this book off my shelf and give it a second chance. ( I found it a slow read on my very first attempt.) I really enjoyed the detail and the fact that the author remained accurate as to the setting, culture, language etc. Since I visited the city I could easily picture everything she talked about in the novel. Unfortuneately,the story moved too slow and the characters could have been developed better. I have enjoyed other books by this author but I might have left this one on the shelf if I had not toured the setting site. Still Slow!
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This was the very first work I read by Robson, and it was also the last. While I love the use of history and detail in order to bring a time period alive, Robson goes a little overboard in an endeavor to paint even the minute details of 18th century colonial life into her work.
I was interested in the religious struggles undertaken by many of the early American colonials and Robson does a fairly good job of highlighting their plight and it's also interesting to meet many of the indentured servants who helped build early America.
But, after a journey on a crowded ship to America, the story seems to fall apart. I honestly stopped caring about what would happen to any of them. Yes, the poor, indentured Anicah is somewhat amusing in the beginning as she tries to keep herself and her lover, Martin, out of trouble (sort of) but everything moves so slowly that reading this work was literally like watching paint dry.
I like my historical novels to be akin to the History Channel--giving me good information, in an interesting way, but not enough to bog me down or bore me--but bore me is exactly what this book did.
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"Mary's Land" is a colorful and detailed novel of a time at the beginning of Europeans' migration to the New World. Robson's novel puts the reader into the thick of the action from the long journey on a small ship to the taming of the frontier. The characters are people you care about. You cheer them on when they find sucess and cry for them when they don't. Wonderful to see it back in print.
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Mary's Land brings the old pages of history to life and makes the people live and breathe - Another of Lucia St. Clair Robson's "can't put down books" - and as soon as I've finished I want more - her facts are always correct and she has a wonderful feel for putting them into words that create pictures in the soul.
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