Salome and the Head

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 1, 2025

In Category - Published 1900 onward

Authors: E. Nesbit In Year : 1909

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Salome and the Head

Sunlight
Limelight
The house with no address
The false moustache
The disaster
The snare
The lover
The husband
The widow
Lovers meeting
The love-night
Miss Steinhart shops
The head
The death night
The intruder
The serving man
The cat from the bag
The knight-errant
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Edmund Templar is visiting some relatives before being shipped off to the war in South Africa. Wandering in the New Forest, he encounters a strange girl dancing in a clearing, to the music of a penny whistle played by a crippled boy. Eight years later, on his return from the war, he traces the girl, now a young woman, and her musician, and gets deeply involved in their strange history and their stranger future. Edith Nesbit's story is strongly coloured by society's constraints on the lives of women, and by love and by death. (Summary by Peter Yearsley.)