Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story - Couverture rigide

Wells, H G

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1421832364 ISBN 13 : 9781421832364

Editeur : 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007

Synopsis

One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis had been reached, and she was almost glad it had been reached. She made up her mind in the train home that it should be a decisive crisis. It is for that reason that this novel begins with her there, and neither earlier nor later, for it is the history of this crisis and its consequences that this novel has to tell. She had a compartment to herself in the train from London to Morningside Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly have distressed her mother to see, and horrified her grandmother beyond measure; she sat with her knees up to her chin and her hands clasped before them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was moving out of the station, whereas she was only moving in.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells, along with Hugo Gernsback and Jules Verne, is sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction".

Présentation de l'éditeur

Dealing with political issues of the time the novel was written and concentrating specifically on feminist issues, through the course this novel the heroine matures from an innocent and naïve girl to a representative of the New Woman.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421832364
• ISBN 13: 9781421832364
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Éditeur: 1stworld Library
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible