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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.4
EAN num: 9780140436518
ISBN number: 0140436510
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: September 01, 1997
Publishing house: Penguin Classics
Sale Popularity Level: 541685
Studio: Penguin Classics
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From the strikingly original voice of Elizabeth Stoddard (1823-1902) comes a pioneering novel about growing up female in 19th-century American middle-class society. THE MORGESONS marked an important transition in the novel form and evoked comparisons during the author's lifetime with such masters as Balzac, Tolstoy, the Brontes, and Hawthorne.
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Terribly, terribly, terribly boring. I do not wish this torment on my worst enemy. Do not read it. There is not even a summary online, which means, nobody could endure the agony to finish this damn book.
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The Morgesons is a magnificently strange book that takes the conventions of the 19th-century coming-of-age novel & turns them inside out. It comes so close to being a deliciously cosy, quasi-gothic, read that you find yourself wondering whether you're imagining the peculiarities--& perhaps they are only the natural consequences of transplanting this sort of novel into an American setting, where instead of sheepfolds & Anglican churchiness, barren Cape Cod coastline and cold Calvinism are the order of the day. Obsession with inheritance & the family line & that terrible 19th century question: what should a woman do? runs through the book, whose coldness occasionally gives way to flaring episodes of violence and passion.
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