Keynotes and Discords: & Discords (Virago Modern Classics) [Paperback]

George Egerton (Author)

Book Description

Series: Virago Modern Classics | Publication Date: July 1995

Set against the wild hills and streams of Ireland, the fir trees and deep fjords of Norway, and the calm English countryside, these stories tell of the turbulent lives of "new women", their loves and yearnings.

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About the Author

Sally Ledger is a Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 462 pages
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square; Virago edition offset from first British edititions edition (July 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0860682935
• ISBN-13: 978-0860682936
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,868,800 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unmissable new edition of neglected classic, November 17, 2005

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Georgie Eliot "book worm" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Keynotes and Discords (Late Victorian & Early Modernist Women Writers) (Paperback)

This new edition of George Egerton's (pseudonym for Mary Chavelita Dunne) 1880's two collections of short stories, here produced in one volume, should be celebrated as an important literary achievement. Manchester Press and the text's editor Sally Ledger have taken a brave step in re-publishing Egerton's emotional, dreamy short stories which often end with a strongly tragical punch to the reader's "mental stomach". George Egerton should already be on the syllabus of A'levels and university courses throughout the English-speaking world. She is not but perhaps this book will achieve something more important: getting George Egerton back in the minds of the reading public. She is daring, fresh and, at times and in certain stories, unputdownable.

4.0 out of 5 stars Footnotes, March 28, 2008

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D. Mason "Dav1d" (Chicago, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Keynotes and Discords: & Discords (Virago Modern Classics) (Paperback)

I came across Egerton - chevalita - via the modernist writer, Hamsun (she translated his first book Hunger). These stories carry some of his stylistic influence and have the commonality of being introspective and surprising. She doesn't adopt the stream of consciousness but she opens herself up and examines herself in these stories. In the day that was rare amoung male writers (the unconscious life of the mind) - in a female writer it was doubly noteable. An interesting book; one that will reward the time you give it.