bookmate game
en
Lyndall Gordon

Outsiders

Уведоми ме, когато книгата е добавена
За да прочете тази книга, качете я във формат EPUB или FB2 в Bookmate. Как се качва книга?
Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders, award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contemporaries, prophetically imagining a different future.
We have long known the individual greatness of each of these writers, but in linking their creativity to their lives as outcasts, Gordon throws new light on the genius they share. All five lost their mothers in childbirth or at a young age. With no female role model present, they learned from books—and sometimes from an enlightened mentor. Crucially, each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of her own. The passion in their own lives infused their fiction….
Тази книга не е налична в момента
481 печатни страници
Вече чели ли сте я? Какво мислите за нея?
👍👎

Цитати

  • daryaцитирапреди 3 години
    No one, of course, can explain genius.
  • daryaцитирапреди 3 години
    In a period when a woman’s reputation was her treasured security, each of these five lost it.
  • daryaцитирапреди 3 години
    The outsiders who have meant most to me tell us not who we are, but who we might be.

На лавиците

fb2epub
Плъзнете и пуснете файловете си (не повече от 5 наведнъж)