Christy by Catherine Marshall

Christy by Catherine Marshall is a 447-page hardcover published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967, Book Club Edition.  The dust jacket has a large chip on the cover, small chips, tears, and tanning along the edges.  Inside, the book is pristine, with clean unmarked pages and tight binding.  The condition is very good. Book Summary "Christy, I never know what to expect from you" is a comment flung at the beguiling heroine of this magnificent novel.  Nor will the reader know what to expect.  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. 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.  From the moment she steps onto the station platform at El Pano that snowy Januar