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John Ward, Preacher
Autor: Margaret Deland
"With your help I could endure any pain. I wonder," he went on, in a lower voice, as though thinking aloud, "if this strength of yours could inspire me to bear the worst pain there could be for me, - I mean, if I had to make you suffer in any way?"
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"With your help I could endure any pain. I wonder," he went on, in a lower voice, as though thinking aloud, "if this strength of yours could inspire me to bear the worst pain there could be for me, - I mean, if I had to make you suffer in any way?"
Helen looked down at him, surprised, not quite understanding.
"Suppose," he said, - "of course one can suppose anything, - that for your best good I had to make you suffer: could I, do you think?"
-from John Ward, Preacher
The fiction of 19th-century novelist Margaret Deland was greatly concerned with the particular challenges faced by the women in her era: the fight for suffrage, the public disgrace of single motherhood, and the secret shame of adultery.
Her first novel, 1888's John Ward, Preacher, is her most sensational, a story of a Calvinist minister, his freethinking wife, Helen, and their clash over religious doctrine-and in particular the concept of eternal damnation-that ultimately destroys them.
A daring and original work about a woman asserting her intellectual independence, this is a lost classic that will electrify readers of American feminist literature.
American poet and novelist MARGARET DELAND (1857-1945) was a contributor to Harper's Magazine. She also wrote the novels Sidney (1890), Philip and His Wife (1894), and The Awakening of Helena Richie (1906), among others. Old Chester Tales (1898) is a collection of her short fiction.
- Vydavateľstvo: Cosimo Classics
- Rok vydania: 2005
- Formát: Paperback
- Rozmer: 203 x 127 mm
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9781596057029
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