Life and Death of Harriett Frean [Audio CD]

May Sinclair (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 31, 2008

The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Anais 9000. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 2.3 hours (slow), 2.1 hours (medium), 1.9 hours (fast).

A portrait of the "perfect daughter" of the Victorian age, told in the stream-of-her-consciousness from infancy to the day of her death; a modernist classic.

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A little masterpiece. --New Statesman

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?In a few short pages,? writes Francine Prose in her Introduction, ?May Sinclair succeeds in rendering the oppressive weight and strength of the chains of family love.? Young Harriett Frean is taught that ?behaving beautifully? is paramount, and she becomes a self-sacrificing woman whose choices prove devastating to herself and to those who love her most. An early pioneer of
stream-of-consciousness writing, Sinclair employs the technique brilliantly in this finely crafted psychological novel. Evoking the style and depth of her contemporaries Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence, Sinclair?s haunting narrative also reflects her keen interest in the theories of Jung and Freud. The text of this Modern Library 20th Century Rediscovery was set from the first American edition of 1922. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Babblebooks (January 31, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601121695
• ISBN-13: 978-1601121691
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,350,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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