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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.
Aug 6, 2024 · [Plumb] is narrated in the first person and tells the story of George Plumb, lawyer, parson and ex-parson who places conscience before career and suffers an unhappy life. Gee...
Notes on Plumb Page 1 of 5 Background to the Novel Maurice Gee, born 1931, dedicated the book to the memory of James and Florence Chapple. Gee’s mother was one of the fourteen Chapple children. In an author’s note at the end of Plumb, Gee says that Lyndhal Gee, his mother, gave permission to include passages from the writings of her parents.
The narrative structure and style of Plumb are suited to its narrator, a man of education, who is capable of great insight and of great blindness. In the course of this study I will examine the structure and style of Plumb, as well as the nature of Plumb himself, as character, narrator and artist.
Jan 1, 1978 · The narrator, George Plumb, is a Presbyterian minister who in the early sections of the book struggles to align his socialist and pacifist views with the teachings of the church at that time. He has a high-minded mission to do moral good during his life, while treating others, especially his family, with judgement and coldness.
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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...
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Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destructive in his utter self-absorption.
