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Women and Fiction: Stories By and About Women (Signet Classics) Mass market paperback - 2002
by Various; Cahill, Susan [Editor]
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This collection of short stories from 26 of the finest women writers of the 20th century celebrate woman in her many roles--daughter, mother, wife, worker, lover, sister, and friend. Contributors include Willa Cather, Colette, Flannery O'Connor, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and others.
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- Title Women and Fiction: Stories By and About Women (Signet Classics)
- Author Various; Cahill, Susan [Editor]
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Signet, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-02-01
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0451528271_used
- ISBN 9780451528278 / 0451528271
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 6.78 x 4.23 x 1.33 in (17.22 x 10.74 x 3.38 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
From Kate Chopin’s turn-of-the-century Lousiana, to Gertrude Stein’s war-time Paris, to Alice Walker’s modern-day America, here are twenty-six short stories by the finest women writers of the twentieth century. These well-known and well-loved authors people their stories with vibrant female characters, from all over the world and all walks of life. Separately, each of these stories bears the mark of a skilled writer. Together, they celebrate woman in her many roles—as daughter, mother, worker, wife, lover, sister, and friend. In Tillie Olsen’s classic, “I Stand Here Ironing,” a single mother considers her success in raising a daughter. In Eudora Welty’s “The Worn Path,” an African-American grandmother meets with grace the impudence of a young, white man. In Alice Munro’s “The Office,” a wife who has too many distractions to write at home rents a room in town, only to be constantly interrupted by her landlord. Superbly written, and at once poignant and ironic, these insightful stories capture the essence of being a woman—in all its similarity, and all its diversity.
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Kate Chopin was born Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis; her father was a prosperous emigrant from County Galway and her mother was of French descent.