Essential Novelists - Aphra Behn: pioneer among women writers
- ISBN-10
- 3967994910
- ISBN-13
- 9783967994919
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 273
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-05-09
- Publisher
- Tacet Books
- Authors
- Aphra Behn, August Nemo
Description
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Aphra Behn which are Oroonoko and Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister. Aphra Behn is remembered in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own: "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." Novels selected for this book: - Oroonoko. - Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
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