The stage is titanic, with the mountains, blue and mauve and brooding, as the backdrop. There are strange mountain customs that shatter Christy's illusions about life and make her face up o herself and what she believes a love triangle which builds to the very end humor, suspense and adventure, foot-tapping music-and yes, even the smells seem real.

From the moment she steps onto the station platform at El Pano that snowy January morning in 1912, her adventures begin and they continue right on through the unforgettable last chapter. Why did a nineteen-year-old girl want to leave her comfortable home to teach in a one room schoolhouse in an isolated cove in the Great Smokies? But Christy Huddleston, 'eager to taste life to the full,' wanted to do just that. That is one reason among many why Christy may be destined to find her own place beside Jane Austen's Emma, Becky Sharp, the heroine of Rebecca and others whom readers will remember with delight. 'Christy, I never know what to expect from you' is a comment flung at the beguiling heroine of this magnificent novel. Inside, the book is pristine, with clean unmarked pages and tight binding. The dust jacket has a large chip on the cover, small chips, tears, and tanning along the edges. Christy by Catherine Marshall is a 447-page hardcover published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967, Book Club Edition.

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