Behind a Mask -Or- A Woman's Power: A Classic Tale of Deception, Ambition, and Revenge - Couverture souple

Barnard, A M; Alcott, Louisa May

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ISBN 10 : 1617206008 ISBN 13 : 9781617206009

Editeur : SMK Books, 2023

Synopsis

Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories under the nom de plume A. M. Barnard. Among these are Jean Muir, Pauline's Passion and Punishment. Her protagonists for these tales are willful and relentless in their pursuit of their own aims, which often include revenge on those who have humiliated or thwarted them. These tales marked the first in the series of "blood & thunder tales".

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À propos de l'auteur

A. M. Barnard was one of the pseudonyms used by Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), the American novelist, short story writer, reform-minded author, and one of the most enduring figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and raised in Concord, Massachusetts, Alcott grew up among Transcendentalist thinkers and reformers, including her father Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and others connected with the intellectual life of New England. Her family's financial instability, idealism, and unconventional education shaped both her ambition and her practical understanding of women's limited choices.Alcott is best known for Little Women, the beloved novel of the March sisters, but her career was far broader and more varied than that single classic suggests. Before and alongside her domestic fiction, she wrote thrillers, sensation stories, Gothic tales, melodramas, and psychologically charged works under pseudonyms such as A. M. Barnard. These stories often feature disguise, revenge, obsession, manipulation, social performance, and women who refuse the narrow roles assigned to them. They reveal an Alcott who was commercially sharp, emotionally bold, and fully aware of the darker energies beneath respectable family life.Her life also included work as a Civil War nurse, abolitionist sympathies, support for women's rights, and relentless effort to support her family through writing. Alcott's fiction moves between moral instruction, domestic realism, sentimental appeal, satire, and sensational excitement, making her one of the most versatile American writers of her century. Today, works such as Behind a Mask have helped restore attention to the fierce, ironic, and subversive side of her imagination, showing that the author of Little Women also understood ambition, performance, gendered power, and the dangerous uses of charm.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SMK Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1617206008
• ISBN 13: 9781617206009
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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