Buch Details
Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis' naturalistic "Life in the Iron Mills" (published in 1861 and predating Imile Zola's "Germinal" by almost 25 years) and Louisa May Alcott's semiautobiographical tale "Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873). The most recent ones are Zora Neals Hurston's "Sweat," an ironic tale of a failed marriage, published in 1926, and "Sanctuary" (1930), Nella Larsen's gripping and controversial tale of contested loyalty.In between is a grand cavalcade of superbly crafted fiction by Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Djuna Barnes, Susan Glaspell and Edith Wharton. Brief biographies of each of the writers are included.
- Einband Taschenbuch
- Schriftsteller AA. VV. / Ward, Candace
- ISBN13 9780486287768
- ISBN10 0486287769
- Buchseiten 200
- Sammlung Dover Thrift Editions #
- Jahr der Ausgabe 1996
- Sprache Englisch
Great Short Stories by American Women
- Autor/in AA. VV. , Candace Ward
- Verlag DOVER
- ISBN 9780486287768
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