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First published in 1935, Young Renny takes us even further back in the Whiteoak family saga to 1906. Renny, the young master of Jalna, is just eighteen. His twenty-year-old sister Meg is engaged to marry the young man next door, Maurice Vaughan Uncle Nick and Uncle Ernest, now in their fifties, have squandered their inheritances abroad on high living and reside again at Jalna. But the plot thickens further, when two outsiders join the mix: A gypsy woman, who seduces Renny, and a distant show more cousin from Ireland, who befriends Gran, moves into Jalna, and spies on the family. This is book 4 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Whiteoak Heritage. show lessTags
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I read this series of books when I was in my early teens. I loved the stories then. That was the 60s. I don't remember ever reading this one, but it was good. De la Roche's characterizations are great. The grandmother, Old Adeline, is quite a lady.
Another in the Jalna saga, this one focuses on the first Whiteoaks of Jalna's grandchildren. There are adventures and troubles and trials to make a great story.
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- Canonical title
- Young Renny
- Original publication date
- 1935
- People/Characters
- Renny Whiteoak; Adeline Whiteoak; Philip Whiteoak; Meg Whiteoak; Mary Wakefield Whiteoak; Ernest Whiteoak (show all 10); Nicholas Whiteoak; Maurice Vaughn; Malahide Court; Lulu
- Important places
- Jalna (Canada)
- Dedication
- For Edward and Anne Dimock Remembering the summer of 1934 and much before and after
- First words
- Everything about the house had been put in perfect order.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"I"m stuck here in the warmth-- for the winter-- ha!"
Classifications
- Genres
- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1900-1945
- LCC
- PZ3 .D37613 .Y — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- 165
- Popularity
- 197,801
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (4.00)
- Languages
- 8 — Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian (Bokmål), Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 27
- ASINs
- 17
