Ellen Glasgow

Broschiertes Buch

Phases Of An Inferior Planet

Beschreibung

Phases of an inferior planet presents a portrait of a young woman navigating ambition and identity in the rigid social world of New York City. Amid the damp, gray pulse of Broadway, she is introduced walking through the city s indifferent crowds, a graceful presence set against a mist-shrouded evening. Her longing for artistic recognition in opera collides with the realities of limited opportunity and constant judgment. The novel dwells on the quiet interior life of a woman who is neither celebrated nor entirely dismissed, but instead floats between belief in her own talent and the weight of disillusionment. The cityscape unfeeling, cold, and relentlessly forward-moving mirrors her emotional condition as she drifts through public spaces and private doubts. Through her eyes, the reader witnesses the strain of maintaining self-worth in a society that commodifies talent and dismisses dreams. Her desire is neither dramatic nor resolved, but persistent and worn, captured in fleeting moments of beauty, introspection, and the ache of artistic hunger. The story unfolds not in grand successes but in the intimate struggle to retain meaning in one s aspirations.

Autor

Ellen Anderson Glasgow was an American novelist who lived from April 22, 1873, to November 21, 1945, was the recipient of the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her book in This Our Life. She received positive reviews for her 20 novels and short stories. Unlike the romantic escapism that typified Southern literature following Reconstruction, Glasgow, a lifelong Virginian, depicted the evolving South in a realistic way. The young Glasgow, who was born on April 22, 1873, in Richmond, Virginia, was raised differently from other ladies of her aristocratic class than her mother, Anne Jane Gholson (1831 1893), and her husband, Francis Thomas Glasgow. Glasgow had the equivalent of a high school education at home in Richmond due to her bad health, which was later diagnosed as chronic heart illness. Despite this, she studied extensively in European and British literature, social and political theory, and philosophy. Glasgow authored 20 novels, a book of short tales, a book of poetry, and a book of literary criticism during the course of more than 40 years of literary output.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Double 9 Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9789371813297
• ISBN-10: 9371813296
• Artikelnr.: 75909385