Jade Cabinet

by Rikki Ducornet

Book Overview

Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria's own Dragon of Industry. The novel travels from Oxford to Egypt where one million ibis mummies wait to be transformed into fertilizer, where Baconfield the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564781739
• ISBN13: 9781564781734
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher