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A wonderful novel
This is a book you can lose yourself in, never mind any "notorious" tag due to its being one of the three versions of Lady Chatterley's Lover.This "second draft" is actually much better than the final version.I didn't find it mawkish at all.It's about tenderness so maybe that's why the other reviewer thought it "mawkish".Don't look for sensationalism here, this novel is about how two people from different worlds fall in love. It's really superb.

This brilliant ýversioný is a novel in its own right.
One of the most fascinating things about picking up a book is being able to immerse oneself in the author's world.If the book is a success, one inevitably wonders where such genius comes from, how it develops.Part ofthe pleasure of reading John Thomas and Lady Jane is, therefore, the way itallows us to glimpse the writer's creative process in the second of threedistinct stages in the formation of the idea of Lady Chatterley's Lover. It also allows us to see how D.H. Lawrence develops the various themes hereturns to again and again in his works:overcoming class barriers,discovering sensuality and passion--in the true, deep senses of thewords--and struggling against the brutally mechanical, cold world of modernday life.Yet the attractions of this novel are not limited to the ratheracademic analyses of how he gets from the rough first version to the finalversion of his notorious novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover.Though the plotis roughly developed in some places, almost mawkishly sentimental inothers, John Thomas and Lady Jane is truly a pleasure to read for thoseseeking reaffirmation of the fact that tenderness and compassion stillexist in this world, and that regardless of where, when and whom, it isalways possible for us to find a way of living that truly expresses andembodies who we really are. ... Read more

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Jane Whitefield, Thomas Perry's Native American "guide," has recently married Dr. Carey McKinnon and is now retired from helping people disappear from danger. But when her husband's old mentor, a world-famous plastic surgeon wanted by the police for a murder he didn't commit, turns up in Carey's emergency room, Jane steps back into the shadowy world of runners and hunters one more time. In this fourth outing in Edgar-winning Perry's fascinating and innovative series, Jane discovers that someone else is using her name and reputation to take fugitives out of the world, but for very different, and diabolical, purposes. Whitefield's Seneca heritage, plus her unique talents, make her a novel and compelling heroine, and Perry's masterful storytelling makes the most of Whitefield in this suspenseful page-turner. --Jane AdamsBook Description
Jane Whitefield, legendary half-Indian shadow guide who spirits hunted people away from certain death, has never had a client like Dr. Richard Dahlman. A famous plastic surgeon who has dedicated his life to healing, the good doctor hasn't a clue why stalkers are out for his blood. But he knows Jane Whitefield's name--and that she is his only hope. Once again Jane performs her magic, leading Dahlman in a nightmare flight across America, only a heartbeat ahead of pursuers whose leader is a dead ringer for Jane: a raven-haired beauty who has stolen her name, reputation, and techniques--not to save lives, but to destroy them. . . .


From the Paperback edition. ... Read more

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Jane Whitefield is Back on the Job
Native American (she's part Seneca) Jane Whitefield has stopped guiding people in danger to safe locations because of a promise she made her new husband Dr. Carey McKinnon. She'd spent the better part of a decade helping those in danger disappear and take on new lives, getting them new papers and teaching them how to stay hidden, now she's finished with that. Or is she?

Now it's her husband of all people who wants her to get back in the saddle and take up her dangerous work once more. His mentor, a famous plastic surgeon, is close to making a medical break though, but he's wanted for a murder he didn't commit. While helping him Jane learns that a group of face-changers are using her name, techniques and underground reputation to prey on innocents in trouble and destroy their lives rather than save them. Jane has to unmask them and put them out of business before they harm anyone else.

Reviewed by Vesta Irene

Thrilling
I didn't think it possible, but with each new Jane Whitefield book, ThomasPerry creates an even more frightening and exciting scenario than in theprevious book.The characters are always fleshed out and believable. Mr.Perry is always worth the time you spend reading his works.

Not up to his usual standards
I've read all of the Jane Whitefield novels so far and this is the first one I found just a bit tedious. However, that said, Perry is still a better mystery writer than 90% of the authors of this genre. My feeling was thebook went on a little too long. I like, and have always liked, the uttercompetence of Jane Whitefield. There doesn't seem to be much that fazes heror puts her off her stride. Not a bad book but the others in this seriesare just a little tighter and more suspenseful

Not as good as the previous
Thomas Perry is an amazing writer, but somehow I didn't feel that this latest venture meets his high standards.There is the usual Jane Whitefield dance with her evil pursuers, close calls, and a subtext thatyou don't figure out till the end.Neverthless, the fact that Jane isperforming her magic not out of her devotion to her work, but because sheis somewhat reluctantly pushed into it, robs the story of its customarymagic.Thomas, let Jane live out a quiet life with her husband, and writeabout Jane's earlier adventures instead.

The only thing I can't figureout is - how did Thomas Perry go from writing amazing and humorous crimenoir like "Metzger's Dog" and the "Butcher's Boy", tothe somber (but no less readable) Jane Whitefield?

Thomas Perry is the best I can't wait for his next book.
Anyone who likes suspense should read this and all of Thomas Perry's other books you will not be disappointed they are hard to put down. ... Read more

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This handy guidebook has the information kids need to keep their hamsters healthy and happy. It includes tips on choosing the right hamster, cage set-up, feeding, body language, playtime and more. It also has lots of write-in pages, so kids will have a special keepsake of their very own hamster friend! ... Read more

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Not good
I was really upset about this book.I thought it would be good.It has nothing but hamster drawings and baby facts.There is only 2 photos and there almost the same.Dont buy this book ... Read more

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A stunning new joint biography from the acclaimed author of George Eliot.

The Carlyles lived at the heart of English life in mid-Victorian London, but both were outsiders, a Scottish pair who looked caustically at the society they so influenced -- Carlyle through his copious writings, and both through their network of acquaintances and correspondents. This is not only a portrait of a marriage but a picture of an age. It is elegant, erudite and entertaining. ... Read more

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an excellent biography of a famously unhappy couple
As I expected from Ashton (having read her admirable biographies of George Eliot and G.H. Lewes), this is an excellent biography, thorough and well-researched.Ashton is sympathetic to both Carlyles, who had a famously unhappy marriage, yet objective, never taking sides; she understands Carlyle's tortured genius and neglect of his wife as well as Jane's self-pity and repressed talents and observantly shows how their difficult personalities interacted with each other as well as with their friends and family. ... Read more

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Edited by Alexander Carlyle.This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1909 edition by John Lane, London. ... Read more

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Back volumes are available for purchase. To ensure that you don't miss a single issue, subscribe to The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle today. For more information, click here. ... Read more

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Don’t miss a single volume. Subscribe today!
Back volumes are available for purchase. To ensure that you don't miss a single issue, subscribe to The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle today. For more information, click here.

“One never tires of reading and rereading the correspondence of interesting people, and there is not doubt that the Carlyles were, and remain through their letters, one of the most interesting couples who ever lived. That their correspondence deserved to be preserved and printed was never in doubt; that is being brought out in so handsome an edition as that of the Duke-Edinburgh one is something that calls for celebration.”—Michael Timko, Books in Scotland ... Read more

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Don’t miss a single volume. Subscribe today!
Back volumes are available for purchase. To ensure that you don't miss a single issue, subscribe to The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle today. For more information, click here.

from reviews of the previous volumes:
“I have no doubt at all that this mammoth editorial task is very well worth doing, and it is being done extremely well. The Carlyles were extraordinary human beings and, as it happens, extraordinarily good letter-writers. Their letters give a uniquely valuable view not only of their life together, but also of the wider lives of all those, high and low, whom they attracted, repelled and—in the pages of their letters—impaled.”—Rosemary Ashton, London Review of Books

“These letters, new and old, reveal much about the lives, attitudes, and activities of the Carlyles, surely one of the most fascinating couples of the Victorian era.”—Joel J. Brattin, Nineteenth-Century Prose

“Such is the charm and intellectual vitality of both Carlyles that one can dip into the letters almost at random and still be captivated.”—Nineteenth-Century Literature

“So powerful were the Carlyles’ skills of letter-writing that they still evoke, clearly, a part of everyday life in Victorian England better than any history could; and lace it with gossip and human trivia that give the casual reader or the serious student of Carlyle
a truly three-dimensional picture of his and Jane’s life.”—Simon Heffer, The Spectator ... Read more

Book Description
Don’t miss a single volume. Subscribe today!
Back volumes are available for purchase. To ensure that you don't miss a single issue, subscribe to The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle today. For more information, click here.

from reviews of the previous volumes:
“I have no doubt at all that this mammoth editorial task is very well worth doing, and it is being done extremely well. The Carlyles were extraordinary human beings and, as it happens, extraordinarily good letter-writers. Their letters give a uniquely valuable view not only of their life together, but also of the wider lives of all those, high and low, whom they attracted, repelled and—in the pages of their letters—impaled.”—Rosemary Ashton, London Review of Books

“These letters, new and old, reveal much about the lives, attitudes, and activities of the Carlyles, surely one of the most fascinating couples of the Victorian era.”—Joel J. Brattin, Nineteenth-Century Prose

“Such is the charm and intellectual vitality of both Carlyles that one can dip into the letters almost at random and still be captivated.”—Nineteenth-Century Literature

“So powerful were the Carlyles’ skills of letter-writing that they still evoke, clearly, a part of everyday life in Victorian England better than any history could; and lace it with gossip and human trivia that give the casual reader or the serious student of Carlyle
a truly three-dimensional picture of his and Jane’s life.”—Simon Heffer, The Spectator ... Read more

Book Description
Don’t miss a single volume. Subscribe today!
Back volumes are available for purchase. To ensure that you don't miss a single issue, subscribe to The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle today. For more information, click here. ... Read more

Book Description
Don’t miss a single volume. Subscribe today!
Back volumes are available for purchase. To ensure that you don't miss a single issue, subscribe to The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle today. For more information, click here.

from reviews of the previous volumes:
“I have no doubt at all that this mammoth editorial task is very well worth doing, and it is being done extremely well. The Carlyles were extraordinary human beings and, as it happens, extraordinarily good letter-writers. Their letters give a uniquely valuable view not only of their life together, but also of the wider lives of all those, high and low, whom they attracted, repelled and—in the pages of their letters—impaled.”—Rosemary Ashton, London Review of Books

“These letters, new and old, reveal much about the lives, attitudes, and activities of the Carlyles, surely one of the most fascinating couples of the Victorian era.”—Joel J. Brattin, Nineteenth-Century Prose

“Such is the charm and intellectual vitality of both Carlyles that one can dip into the letters almost at random and still be captivated.”—Nineteenth-Century Literature

“So powerful were the Carlyles’ skills of letter-writing that they still evoke, clearly, a part of everyday life in Victorian England better than any history could; and lace it with gossip and human trivia that give the casual reader or the serious student of Carlyle
a truly three-dimensional picture of his and Jane’s life.”—Simon Heffer, The Spectator ... Read more

Book Description
Don’t miss a single volume. Subscribe today!
Back volumes are available for purchase. To ensure that you don't miss a single issue, subscribe to The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle today. For more information, click here.

“One never tires of reading and rereading the correspondence of interesting people, and there is not doubt that the Carlyles were, and remain through their letters, one of the most interesting couples who ever lived. That their correspondence deserved to be preserved and printed was never in doubt; that is being brought out in so handsome an edition as that of the Duke-Edinburgh one is something that calls for celebration.”—Michael Timko, Books in Scotland ... Read more