The Blazing World and Other Writings
The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man.<BR><BR>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man.<BR><BR>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
H | B | T | Gramm
127 mm | 193 mm | 19 mm | 198 gr
Erscheinungsjahr
1994
FSK
0
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Taschenbuch
Verlag
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
ISBN-10
0140433724
ISBN-13
9780140433722
Autor
Cavendish, Margaret
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
272
Themen
Klassische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, Fantasyliteratur, Klassische Lyrik und Dichtung vor dem 20. Jahrhundert, Klassische Science-Fiction-Literatur, Belletristik: Erzählungen, Kurzgeschichten, Short Stories
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