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The Bostonians - (Modern Library Classics) by Henry James (Paperback)
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Highlights
- This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her.
- About the Author: A. S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and reviewer.
- 496 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Short Stories (single author)
- Series Name: Modern Library Classics
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This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will Basil Ransom, a conservative southern lawyer, steal Verena's heart and remove her from the limelight? "The Bostonians has a vigor and blithe wit found nowhere else in James," writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction. "It is about idealism in a democracy that is still recovering from a civil war bitterly fought for social ideals . . . [written] with a ferocious, precise, detailed--and wildly comic--realism."Review Quotes
"As devastating in its wit as it is sharp in its social critique of sexual politics. No writer in America had dared the subject before. No one has done it so well since." --The New Republic
About the Author
A. S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and reviewer. Her novels include the Booker Prize-winning Possession, and the quartet The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman.Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.32 Inches (W) x 1.02 Inches (D)
Weight: .77 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 496
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Short Stories (single author)
Series Title: Modern Library Classics
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Author: Henry James
Language: English
Street Date: December 9, 2003
TCIN: 94273769
UPC: 9780812969962
Item Number (DPCI): 247-03-6646
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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