Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Pages,
Binding,
Edition,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
James
Author First Name:
Henry
Pages:
408
Binding:
Mass Market Paperback
Edition:
Media Tie In, Reissue
ISBN 10:
0140024506
ISBN 13:
9780140024500
Condition:
Used
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Date Published:
1/1/0001
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Description
This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will Basil Ransom, a conservative southern lawyer, steal Verena's heart and remove her from the limelight? ""The Bostonians" has a vigor and blithe wit found nowhere else in James," writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction. "It is about idealism in a democracy that is still recovering from a civil war bitterly fought for social ideals . . . Ýwritten ̈ with a ferocious, precise, detailed--and wildly comic--realism."
