The Pride of Hannah Wade [Paperback]

Janet Dailey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 1985

A Simon & Schuster eBook

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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About the Author

Janet Dailey is the author of scores of popular and uniquely American novels, including such bestsellers as Scrooge Wore Spurs, A Capital Holiday, The Glory Game, The Pride of Hannah Wade, and the phenomenal Calder saga, including the newest title in the series, Shifting Calder Wind. Her romantic fiction has also been featured in a story anthology, The Only Thing Better Than Chocolate. Since her first novel was published in 1975, Janet Dailey has become the bestselling female author in America, with more than 300,000,000 copies of her books in print. Her books have been published in seventeen languages and are sold in ninety countries. Janet Dailey's careful research and her intimate knowledge of America have made her one of the best-loved authors in the country and around the world. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Pocket (November 15, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671498010
• ISBN-13: 978-0671498016
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,748,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Exciting Read!, January 16, 2009

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C. Henderson "cmh" (St.. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Pride of Hannah Wade (Paperback)

I read this book not too long after it came out and I found it riveting! It's one of my all time favorite books! Hannah Wade is a beautiful officer's wife who gets captured by the Apaches. Any other gentle-born lady would kill herself rather than live after being violated by an Indian, but Hannah was determined to survive. She learns quickly from the harsh treatment and begins to settle into the Apache life. But always in the back of her mind was the desire to escape. This story goes into graphic detail of her horrible experiences and and the cruel treatment she receives after rescue. Only the love of one man strong enough to respect her strength helps her see a promising future. This book made me laugh and cry. It gave a glimpse into the Apache life and way of thinking as it revealed the pettiness and bigotry against them. There were also other characters that supported this story that made it hard to put the book down. There wasn't graphic sex, but there was adventure and suspense. I'm going to buy it to keep forever!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not much romance, November 7, 2001

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Misty King (NC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The PRIDE OF HANNAH WADE : THE PRIDE OF HANNAH WADE (Mass Market Paperback)

I was dissapointed in this book, since i was expecting to read another great romance novel from Janet Dailey. This novel was entertaining and a good read, however, there was hardly any romance going on between Hannah and Cutter or anyone else for that matter.

5.0 out of 5 stars NOT A CLASSICAL ROMANCE, BUT A GREAT READ., September 9, 2010

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Mary L. Valley "bottle babe" (Idaho /Falls, ID USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Pride of Hannah Wade (Paperback)

This is a very balanced story, not precisely a romance, not entirely a western adventure. It is about Hannah Wade, the wife of a calvery officer, captured by on an apache raid. She is given as a slave to her captor's wife and eventually taken by him as his second wife before she is rescued and returned to her not entirely grateful spouse. It has very strong charactors who are not just the usual cardboard cutouts seen in many indian romances. Whether you like them, or dislike them, her people feel and react like real people. Janet Dailey deals accurately and even-handedly with the cultures and the attitudes likely to be found during this part of the indian wars, showing both the strengths and the warts of both sides of the conflict. What I liked best was that she does not deal with rape as a tool of romance, and there is no dewey-eyed maiden who stuns the noble chief into instant love and they go riding off into a life of perfect coexistance with nature, and yadda yadda. Hannah is a strong woman bent on survival and her experience with the apaches range from the brutality of her capture and early slavery to her adjustment and appreciation of many aspects of the Apache culture as well as her changing attitudes toward the band she travels with and how her views of the warrior who captured her change from intense hatred to unhappy ambivalence towards towards the end of her captivity. Her difficult return to white society makes her draw on the strength that allowed her to survive 11 months of captivity and remake her own life and find the man who can appreciate her as is, with no apologies for surviving. It is very well written with people you care about and would like to learn more about.