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The Peacock Spring Study Guide

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by Rumer Godden
About 7 pages (2,074 words)
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Godden's childhood in India, where the British held semi-royal status, and her frequent later visits enrich her descriptions. The house made available to Sir Edward Gwithiam because of his diplomatic services for the United Nations owes much to Godden's memories of their homes in various Indian villages along the tributaries of the Ganges River. She fills the house with servants, Indian and Chinese, who must have awed the young Godden girls. The accuracy of her descriptions, reviewers have said, brings the reader "the sights, the sounds, the smells.....

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The Peacock Spring from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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