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"The Sheltered Life", writes Carol S. Manning in her Afterword to this new paperback edition, is "a jewel of American literature and deserves recognition as a masterpiece of the Southern Renaissance". It is a remarkably unsentimental look at the old South, a society that blindly holds to past values enforced by a strict code of conduct, being overtaken by the new age of industrialization. We see in the families of the Archibalds and the Birdsongs - especially in the character of General Archibald, the quintessential Southern gentleman, and of the celebrated beauty Mrs. Eva Birdsong - how upholding these old Southern ideals denies any opportunity for growth and fulfillment. The only hope is in the General's impetuous young granddaughter, Jenny. By the end of the novel, however, she too has learned that beauty is to be most admired and that deception is moral and civilized - that it is good to tell lies if they make others feel better. Ellen Glasgow's career-long attempt to expose the cruelty of the "cult of beauty worship" and the "philosophy of evasive idealism" that she saw as prevalent in the South's conversations, manners, customs, and literature reaches its zenith in The Sheltered Life. First published in 1932, it was hailed by Alfred Kazin as Ellen Glasgow's "most moving and penetrating novel. Like Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, which it closely resembles in spirit, The Sheltered Life became a haunting study in social decomposition".
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- Título The Sheltered Life
- Autor Ellen Glasgow
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición [ Edition: repri
- Páginas 329
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Virginia Press, Garden City
- Fecha de publicación 1994
- ISBN 9780813915142 / 0813915147
- Peso 1.07 libras (0.49 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.32 x 5.56 x 1.13 pulgadas (21.13 x 14.12 x 2.87 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, City and town life - Fiction
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 93041095
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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