Aurora Leigh (Oxford World’s Classics)
✍ Scribed by Elizabeth B. Browning;Kerry McSweeney
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 237 KB
- Series
- Oxford World’s Classics
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0192836536
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Aurora Leigh, now available in the first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a century, is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth century poem of contemporary life. It is an amazing verse novel which provides a panoramic view of the early Victorian age in London. The
dominant presence in the work however, is the narrator Aurora Leigh, as she develops her ideas on art, love, God, the "Woman Question", and society.
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