Achieve The White Jade Fox Penned By Andre Norton Listed As Paper Copy

quick and interesting read, very antiquated in some ways, Not historical fiction a mild sort of fantasy, Saranna had heard rumors about Tiensin, the strange old mansion with its oriental treasures, She had heard it was haunted, Now with her own eyes she had seen it was true, The Macabre circle of small foxes ringing the dancer in the secret garden, the mysterious robed woman with a foxs face.
Had Saranna realy seen them Or had she dreamed it

Saranna had gone to Tiensin under protest.
Her spoiled young niece, Honora, had forced her to become a governess to her stepdaughter, Damaris, Never had Saranna encountered anyone as thoroughly evil as Honora, She was beautiful, and she could pull the wool over any mans eyes, But she could not deceive Saranna, Or Damaris, whom she was planning to cheat out of a huge inheritance, Even the handsome and trustworthy Gerrad Fowkes seemed to be taken with the deceitful young stepmother, Saranna knew now that the future held great danger for her and Damaris, She needed desperately to talk to someone, But there was no one, Except Gerrad Fowkes. Or was he too enamored of Honora to believe Saranna Even with missing pages I found this a fast, enjoyable read.
One of my Teen favorites,mystery and a good amount of spookiness with a mansion fulled with wonder.
Not one of my favorite books anymore but still a page turner, Batshit gothic romance with actual foxes, A different sort of tale from Norton but an intriguing one, Alice Mary Norton always had an affinity to the humanities, She started writing in her teens, inspired by a charismatic high school teacher, First contacts with the publishing world led her, as many other contemporary female writers targeting a male dominated market, to choose a literary pseudonym.
Inshe legally changed her name to Andre Alice, She also used the names Andrew North and Allen Weston as pseudonyms, Andre Norton published her first novel in, and was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in, and won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America SFWA association in.
Norton was twice nominated for Alice Mary Norton always had an affinity to the humanities, She started writing in her teens, inspired by a charismatic high school teacher, First contacts with the publishing world led her, as many other contemporary female writers targeting a male dominated market, to choose a literary pseudonym.
Inshe legally changed her name to Andre Alice, She also used the names Andrew North and Allen Weston as pseudonyms, Andre Norton published her first novel in, and was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in, and won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America SFWA association in.
Norton was twice nominated for the Hugo Award, infor the novel Witch World and infor the novelette "Wizard's World.
" She was nominated three times for the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, winning the award in.
Norton won a number of other genre awards, and regularly had works appear in the Locus annual "best of year" polls.
On February,, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, which had earlier honored her with its Grand Master Award in, announced the creation of the Andre Norton Award, to be given each year for an outstanding work of fantasy or science fiction for the young adult literature market, beginning in.
Often called the Grande Dame of Science Fiction and Fantasy by biographers such as J, M. Cornwell and organizations such as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Publishers Weekly, and Time, Andre Norton wrote novels for overyears.
She had a profound influence on the entire genre, having overpublished titles read by at least four generations of science fiction and fantasy readers and writers.
Notable

authors who cite her influence include Greg Bear, Lois McMaster Bujold, C, J. Cherryh, Cecilia Dart Thornton, Tanya Huff, Mercedes Lackey, Charles de Lint, Joan D, Vinge, David Weber, K. D. Wentworth, and Catherine Asaro. sitelink.