Contrary Mary
by Temple Bailey
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The big house, standing on a high hill which overlooked the city, showed in the moonlight the grotesque outlines of a composite architecture. Originally it had been a square substantial edifice of Colonial simplicity. A later and less restrained taste had aimed at a castellated effect, and certain peaks and turrets had been added. Three of these turrets were excrescences stuck on, evidently, with an idea of adornment. The fourth tower, however, rounded out and enlarged a room on the third show more floor. This room was one of a suite, and the rooms were known as the Tower Rooms, and were held by those who had occupied them to be the most desirable in the barn-like building. show lessTags
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First published in 1915
87 works; 11 members
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Contrary Mary
- Original publication date
- 1914
- People/Characters
- Mary Ballard; Constance Ballard; Barry Ballard; Roger Poole
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 808 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures
- LCC
- PZ3 .B156 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- 27
- Popularity
- 1,011,026
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- (4.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 18
- ASINs
- 2
