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The first novel is narrated by the eighty-year-old George Plumb, not in chronological order but by looking back through his own memories, and covering the 1890s to the 1940s.
Jan 1, 2001 · The narrator - George Plumb - is a high minded Christian scholar with a large family. He spends all his time reading and studying the nature of love and god. He's very righteous and judgemental of other people's shortcomings - especially his children's - but he's always forgiving of himself.
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Aug 2, 2021 · Although the notion has its detractors, it is now widely considered to be the world's first novel. Let's take a look into how it earned the distinction and see how it measures up to earlier works that some claim outdate it as the first.
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Jul 5, 2011 · Gee's first book, The Big Season, was published in 1962. He has since produced nearly two dozens novels and collections of short stories and his work has appeared in such publications as Arena,...
Jul 2, 2020 · The novel was influenced by historic events and societal developments, especially tidal changes that involved the class structure of English society. The merchant class had existed for centuries and had steadily grown in the Age of Discovery and during colonization in the seventeenth century.
The first book, Plumb (1978), covers the period from the 1890s through 1949; it is based on the career of Gee’s grandfather, a Presbyterian minister who was tried for heresy by his church and jailed for sedition by the state.
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Plumb by Maurice Gee (Penguin Books NZ) | Winner of the 1979 Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards . Maurice Gee writes: It’s more than forty years since I wrote Plumb and I’m not sure now where some of the things in the book come from. But I am sure about the chapters reproduced here.
