Esther Waters
Esther Waters (1894) was one of the first English novels to defeat Victorian moral censorship. George Moore's story of a mother's fight for the life of her illegitimate son won Mr Gladstone's approval and was admitted, unaltered, into those bastions of Victorian conformity, the circulating libraries. Esther Waters is forced to leave home and become a servant in a well-to-do household. Seduced in a moment of weakness she has to leave her position and the novel charts her poignant story of poverty and hardship: first the lying-in hospital, then service as a wet-nurse, and even the workhouse as she struggles to look after her child. Adapting t…
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Weitere Autoren: Skilton, David (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-954983-2
- EAN: 9780199549832
- Produktnummer: 3627045
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 398 S.
- Masse: H19.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.0 cm 295 g
- Gewicht: 295
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