Martin Dressler: Tale Of An American Dreamer, The

Daphne Du Maurier's story of sex, society and scandal, based on the life of her great-great-grandmother. Cockney girl Mary Anne has known the grinding heel of poverty. Now, with beauty, brains and ambition, and the glittering decadence of Regency London to sustain her, she becomes a Royal mistress. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1997, this novel fulfills Pulitzer's requirement that this prize go to a book which studies the social, political, and MORAL conditions of the people. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer fulfills those requirements well, and gracefully, though it is not a grand novel or one in which the reader will become emotionally involved with the characters and plot.