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Nine Coaches Waiting is a then-contemporary suspense, Gothic Romance novel by Mary Stewart published originally in 1958. The setting is the late 1950s — contemporary to the time of its first publication. The novel tells the haunting tale of a young Read More..

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Description	Nine Coaches Waiting is a then-contemporary suspense, Gothic Romance novel by Mary Stewart published originally in 1958. The setting is the late 1950s — contemporary to the time of its first publication. The novel tells the haunting tale of a young English governess, Linda Martin, who travels to the Château Valmy, near Thonon-les-Bains, France, to take care of nine-year-old Philippe de Valmy. There she finds herself tangled in a plot to murder her charge and tries to save him, which eventually results in the revelation of a dark secret. Linda's name is short for Belinda, "or for pretty" as her mother used to say, but she goes by Linda throughout the book. In keeping with Linda's background in poetry and other literature, Stewart employs chapter epigraphs with quotes from the works of numerous poets, playwrights, and authors, that fit the themes or actions of each scene. Among these are lines from Macbeth, King John, and Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, as well as from his Sonnets 88 and 90. Others are from John Milton; Charles Dickens; John Keats; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning John Donne; George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; William Blake; George Meredith; and John Webster. All epigraphs are much briefer than Cyril Tourneur's lines that head the first chapter and whence Stewart derived the book's title. (See notes.) A good example is that from King John that introduces Chapter VIII: Thou art more deep damn'd than Prince Lucifer. There is none yet so ugly a fiend in hell As thou shalt be, if thou didst kill this child.And the final epigraph (at Chapter XXI):Look you, the stars shine still.— John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Cinderella is referred to by Linda, as is Jane Eyre, for obvious reasons. Mary Stewart's vast literary knowledge and background is particularly, yet seamlessly, manifest in this book.
Description	Nine Coaches Waiting is a then-contemporary suspense, Gothic Romance novel by Mary Stewart published originally in 1958. The setting is the late 1950s — contemporary to the time of its first publication. The novel tells the haunting tale of a young English governess, Linda Martin, who travels to the Château Valmy, near Thonon-les-Bains, France, to take care of nine-year-old Philippe de Valmy. There she finds herself tangled in a plot to murder her charge and tries to save him, which eventually results in the revelation of a dark secret. Linda's name is short for Belinda, "or for pretty" as her mother used to say, but she goes by Linda throughout the book. In keeping with Linda's background in poetry and other literature, Stewart employs chapter epigraphs with quotes from the works of numerous poets, playwrights, and authors, that fit the themes or actions of each scene. Among these are lines from Macbeth, King John, and Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, as well as from his Sonnets 88 and 90. Others are from John Milton; Charles Dickens; John Keats; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning John Donne; George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; William Blake; George Meredith; and John Webster. All epigraphs are much briefer than Cyril Tourneur's lines that head the first chapter and whence Stewart derived the book's title. (See notes.) A good example is that from King John that introduces Chapter VIII: Thou art more deep damn'd than Prince Lucifer. There is none yet so ugly a fiend in hell As thou shalt be, if thou didst kill this child.And the final epigraph (at Chapter XXI):Look you, the stars shine still.— John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Cinderella is referred to by Linda, as is Jane Eyre, for obvious reasons. Mary Stewart's vast literary knowledge and background is particularly, yet seamlessly, manifest in this book.

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Name	Nine Coaches Waiting
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Authors	Mary Stewart
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Genre	Mystery , Romance novel
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Language	English
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Country	United Kingdom
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