Nancy Barrineau
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Series
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
"Hardy's penultimate work, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is arguably the greatest tragedy of all Victorian literature. It tells the story of Tess, an impoverished woman whose past relations and miscarriage cause her to be rejected by her husband on their wedding night. Touching upon the themes of class, religion, gender, and sexuality, the novel was highly controversial for its time and is held in high esteem by literary scholars to this day."--Publisher...
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
These early writings by American novelist Theodore Dreiser provide a major piece missing from the puzzle of his formative years. Collected in this volume are reviews and opinion pieces that Dreiser published in Ev'ry Month, a popular Women's magazine that he edited for twenty-four issues, from October 1895 through September 1897. It was during this time, says Nancy Warner Barrineau, that Dreiser completed his transformation into the writer whose distinguished...