The Wife of Martin Guerre
In this new edition of Janet Lewis's classic short novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre, Swallow Press executive editor Kevin Haworth writes that Lewis's story is a short novel of astonishing depth and resonance, a sharply drawn historical tale that asks contemporary questions about identity and belonging, about men and women, and about an individual's capacity to act within an inflexible system. Originally published in 1941, The Wife of Martin Guerre has earned the respect and admiration of critics and readers for over sixty years.Based on a notorious trial in sixteenth-century France, this story of Bertrande de Rols is the first of three novels…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8040-4053-2
- EAN: 9780804040532
- Produktnummer: 20435249
- Verlag: Ohio University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'676 KB
- Auflage: New Edition
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Janet Lewis was a novelist, poet, and short-story writer whose literary career spanned almost the entire twentieth century. The New York Times has praised her novels as some of the 20th century's most vividly imagined and finely wrought literature. Born and educated in Chicago, she lived in California for most of her adult life and taught at both Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. Her works include The Wife of Martin Guerre (1941), The Trial of Sören Qvist (1947), The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron (1959), Good-Bye, Son and Other Stories (1946), and Poems Old and New (1982).
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