The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780192833129 (019283312X)
ASIN: 019283312X
Publish date: 2002-10-26
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Feminism,
19th Century,
English Literature,
Fiction
This is an astonishing book: a subversive, feminist take on marriage and women’s roles in society, written by a man in the 1890s. I suspect that’s not a coincidence, that a woman couldn’t have gotten away with this book and its criticism of Victorian marriage and Victorian men. And to round out the ...
A definite winner in my eyes. There are some books that just make you think and this is one of them. Taking the idea of 'odd women' and turning it into a novel is just brillant. Odd women are those women who are left after all other eligible men and women have been paired in marriage. These women ar...
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