Camélia Azul

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Esta é a história de pioneiros e suas mulheres e filhos num pedaço da Louisiana e, acima de tudo, é a história do grande amor e inegualável lealdade que iluminou as vidas de Mary e Brent Winslow, de sua filha Lavínia, e dos dois primos, Claude Villac e Felix Primeaux, rivais no amor de Lavínia.===="Blue Camellia" by Frances Parkinson Keyes '--' To build a great empire from the pioneer land of Louisiana took a faith and a will as difficult to possess as a blue camellia. In this, one of Frances Parkinson Keyes' finest novels, determined men and valiant women wrest from the land a mighty tradition. The story of Brent and Mary Winslow is an epic of America. In a coutnryside rich with a French, Indian, and Negro heritage, the couple endure incredible hardships to become its foremost citizens. It is in the second generation, in the tragic story of their beautiful daughter Lavinia - torn between two men - that the family learns to endure, to again grow, and to find the blue camellia. 'Francis Parkinson Keyes a ther story telling best... a love story accented by a colorful background'.'Aventura / Crônicas / Drama / Ficção / Geografia / História / Literatura Estrangeira / Romance