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Work: A Story of Experience
Louisa May Alcott
其他書名
A Library of America eBook Classic
出版
Library of America
, 2014-10-07
主題
Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Women
ISBN
159853422X
9781598534221
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Yxi-BAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Published in 1873, this autobiographical novel has been called the adult
Little Women
. It follows the semi-autobiographical story of an orphan named Christie Devon, who, having turned twenty-one, announces “a new Declaration of Independence” and leaves her uncle’s house in order to pursue economic self-sufficiency and to find fulfillment in her profession. Against the backdrop of the Civil War years, Christie works as a servant, actress, governess, companion, seamstress, and army nurse—all jobs that Alcott knew from personal experience—exposing the often insidious ways in which the employments conventionally available to women constrain their self-determination. Alcott’s most overtly feminist novel,
Work
breaks new ground in the literary representation of women, as its heroine pushes at the boundaries of nineteenth-century expectations and assumptions. The novel is supplemented here with all the usual Library of America features, plus a conversation with editor Susan Cheever, and a reading group guide.