TIGER BURNING BRIGHT

by Theodora Du Bois ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 15, 1964

Fifteen year old Anne Burney was glad to throw over her dull New England life when her father was sent as a missionary-- to India in 1854, especially since handsome Jack Thornhill (23--Yale grad) happened to be bound for the land of temple bells himself. The East India Co. held India captive like a tiger in a cage, and shortly after Anne arrived and accepted a position in Calcutta as a governess, the tiger was clawing to get free. In the agonizing struggle and journey which ensue, there is death (of her young charge's mother, for one), violence, grief, love and bitterness-- in mountain-sized, portions. Anne, Jack Thornhill, Sahim, their Indian friend and guide, and eleven children cross the desert in carts drawn by bullocks. The hardships are almost unendurable, but Anne comes through like a saint. The good characters (there are the good, and there are the bad; those who are good are very good, and...) move like virtuous robots, showing only the faintest signs of human weaknesses. A sprawling melodrama, the potential here is weakened by concocted excitement that will have some appeal to female devotees of filmdom's spectaculars.

Pub Date: March 15, 1964

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Co.

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1964

Categories: FICTION