The Wide, Wide World - Softcover

Susan SW Warner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0935312668 ISBN 13: 9780935312669

Publisher: THE FEMINIST PRESS, 1986

Synopsis

First published in 1850 and exceeded in popularity then only by Uncle Tom's Cabin, this domestic epic narrates the seven-year pilgrimage of a girl sent out into the world at age ten by a dying mother and a careless father. Moved from relative to relative, Ellen Montgomery astonishes by remaining faithful to her mother's memory and to her Christian teachings.

As Jane Tompkins notes in her afterword, Warner's (1819-1865) novel is "compulsively readable, absorbing, and provoking to an extraordinary degree. . . More than any other book of its time, it embodies, uncompromisingly, the values of the Victorian era."

About this title

Synopsis:

Exceeded in popularity in its time only by "Uncle Tom's Cabin", this 1850 domestic epic narrates the seven year pilgrimage of a girl sent out into the world at age ten by her dying mother and careless father. Despite being passed from relative to relative, Ellen Montgomery remains faithful to her mother's memory and Christian teachings. As Jane Tompkins notes in her Afterword, this novel by Warner (1819-1865) is "compulsively readable, absorbing, and provoking to an extraordinary degree...More than any other book of its time, it embodies, uncompromisingly, the values of the Victorian era."

About the Author:

Susan Warner (1819-1865) began writing novels to aid her own impoverished family. She wrote religious and children's fiction, and her novel The Wide, Wide World was one of the most widely read nineteenth-century American stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: THE FEMINIST PRESS
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0935312668
• ISBN 13: 9780935312669
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608