Olive (Oxford World's Classics)
od Craik, D. M. M. z vydavateľstva Oxford University Press 2000
Olive (Oxford World's Classics)
od Craik, D. M. M. z vydavateľstva Oxford University Press 2000
Autor: | Craik, D. M. M. |
Vydavateľstvo: | Oxford University Press |
Rok vydania: | 2000 |
EAN: | 9780192833266 |
Počet strán: | 416 |
Typ tovaru: | Brožovaná väzba |
Viac o knihe Olive (Oxford World's Classics) (Craik, D. M. M.)
´Sybilla considered beauty as all in all. And this child - her child and Angus´s, would be a deformity on the face of the earth, a shame to its parents, a dishonour to its race.´ First published in 1850, Olive traces its eponymous heroine´s progress from her ill-starred birth to maturity as a painter and wife. The crippled child of parents who are disgusted by her physical ´imperfection´, a curvature of the spine, Olive struggles to take her place in the world as artist and woman. Published three years after Jane Eyre, Olive´s swift fictional response to Charlotte Bronte´s novel raises questions of family, race and nation. This edition also includes ´The Half-Caste´, a story that confronts questions of miscegenation and racial prejudice in Victorian Britain.