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The Getting of Wisdom
The Getting of Wisdom
Author: Henry Handel Richardson
It is the story of a young girl Laura who encounters the conventionality of school society with great persistence. The story starts when admitted in a boarding school in Melbourne, Laura tries hard to adjust but as the author writes "She could not know then?the right hole?seeming unfitness prove to be only another aspect of?special fitness." App...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781404305618
ISBN-10: 1404305610
Publication Date: 5/19/2002
Pages: 208
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Publisher: IndyPublish
Book Type: Paperback
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Those who saw the delightful film, The Getting of Wisdom will be equally charmed by the novel that inspired it. The unforgettable adolescent heroine unsuccessfully wages a comic but agonizing struggle to stifle her true self in order to conform to the banality around her.


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