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The Schoolmistress by Robert Dorang

It is 1897. Anne Marie Laforge rebels against her doting and domineering French-born father and impulsively accepts a teaching position in a one-room schoolhouse in upper Appalachia, home of her late mother. Far from the comfort and refinement of her native Quebec, she is soon confronted with the ruggedness and idiosyncrasies of the inhabitants of a small village. She encounters Ned Pennant, an elective mute trapper-poacher. First repulsed by this near-illiterate, then intrigued, she challenges herself to make him speak again. They will fall in love but their romance is short lived when Ned is accused of murder. Will Anne Marie be dismissed from her teaching position for having consorted with an alleged criminal? International events, matrimonial proposals, travels and personal crisis will shape her and Ned’s destinies.

First Edition, Copyright 2009
ISBN#978-09790775-7-9
447 pages, on 24lb opaque paper
6 x 9" size, color cover, perfect bound. $24.95

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AUTHOR: Robert Dorang                                   RDorangPhoto

was born and grew up in Pennsylvania. started his career reporting for the Caldwell News Tribune, the Oregon Journal and the Buffalo Evening News, then worked an internship in Washington, D.C. with the American Political Science Association.
He subsequently reported for the Wall Street Journal before going to Europe where he was the first American to serve as spokesman for the European Economic Community, then Bureau Chief for McGraw Hill and World Report Business Week in Bohn, Germany, then as Foreign and Washington Correspondent in Paris, France and Washington, D.C. He later worked at the OECD in Paris as editor and audio-visual scriptwriter. He was fluent in French and German.
Robert Dorang retired and moved back to Pennsylvania where he and his wife, Geneviève, owned a one-room schoolhouse they lovingly restored and was also the inspiration for The Schoolmistress.
Robert passed away in 1999.

 

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