| The Wide, Wide World Contributor(s): Warner, Susan (Author), Tompkins, Jane (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0935312668 ISBN-13: 9780935312669 Publisher: Feminist Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1993 Annotation: Exceeded in popularity in its time only by Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Wide, Wide World is a feminist Huckleberry Finn. First published in 1850, this domestic epic narrates the seven-year pilgrimage of a girl sent out into the world at age ten by a dying mother and a careless father. Moved from relative to relative, Ellen Montgomery astonishes by remaining faithful to her mother's memory and to her Christian teachings. As Jane Tompkins notes in her afterword, Warner's (1819-1865) novel is "compulsively readable, absorbing, and provoking to an extraordinary degree... More than any other book of its time, it embodies, uncompromisingly, the values of the Victorian era." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 86027062 |
| Physical Information: 1.16" H x 5.47" W x 8.2" (1.57 lbs) 608 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in 1850 and exceeded in popularity then only by Uncle Tom's Cabin, this domestic epic narrates the seven-year pilgrimage of a girl sent out into the world at age ten by a dying mother and a careless father. Moved from relative to relative, Ellen Montgomery astonishes by remaining faithful to her mother's memory and to her Christian teachings. As Jane Tompkins notes in her afterword, Warner's (1819-1865) novel is compulsively readable, absorbing, and provoking to an extraordinary degree. . . More than any other book of its time, it embodies, uncompromisingly, the values of the Victorian era. |