Maria |  | Author: Eugenia Price
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1560609
Format: Large Print
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 701
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.5
ISBN: 1560544678
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781560544678
ASIN: 1560544678
Publication Date: January 1993
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Book Description
The spirited story of Mary Evans, an extraordinary woman from colonial Charles Town who finds a place for herself in St. Augustine after Spain relinquishes Florida.
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 The character Maria is a grasping, selfish, greedy woman... November 16, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I wanted to like this book because St. Augustine is my favorite city in the world. However, the main character was so disappointing that I found I couldn't enjoy the novel. Maria is unappreciative (and undeserving) of her friends, obsessed with wealth, and filled with arrogance. The story's conclusion was less than satisfying with Maria apparently learning little from her pathetic, wasted life. The only characters that make this novel moderately readable are Luciano de Herrera and John Edward.
 Maria June 7, 2000
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I couldn't put this book down. After visiting St. Augustine, then reading the book, I was truly walking the streets with Maria. I saw the same building she did and have the same awe for the town as she did. I read this book in two day...I couldn't put it down. Looking for the other two books in the trilogy. Can someone help.
A master storyteller. September 14, 1999
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Eugenia Price combined her outstanding writing skills with meticulous research and attention to detail. This was my first introduction to her work -- no one can surpass her mastery of historical fiction. Her work helped me to introduce History as a living thing to my own children.
what a woman is described here February 20, 1999
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
A very ambitious story in that it tackles a sticky, sort of unknown time in history - 1700's Florida back when it was a ping-pong game between England and Spain over who ruled the territory. That's not the interesting part though. The best part of this book is the character of Maria, or Mary, once the resident of what is now known as St. Augustine's Oldest House. Maria is an intelligent, resourceful, very beautiful woman who is very far ahead of her time. She comes through tragic loss and grief but somehow (you often wonder how) she is back up again, alive and battering life's doors once more. Read the book to know her if nothing else. A few love stories are intertwined as well. Well worth it. The first Price book I ever read and today I've read nearly all.
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