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Hertha (Paperback)
Fredrika Bremer
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R574
Discovery Miles 5 740
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Often referred to as Sweden's Charlotte Bronte, Fredrika Bremer
(1801-1865) was widely translated during her lifetime and became
internationally acclaimed as the author of an impressive series of
novels and travel books. The Colonel's Family first appeared in two
parts in 1830-31 as part of a series which she called Sketches from
Daily Life - a title which at an early stage declared her lifelong
preoccupation with the details of her domestic day. What was less
immediately apparent to her contemporaries was her courage in
abandoning the prevailing conventions of insipid romantic fiction
in order to explore more profound social and moral problems. Her
novel is now recognised as a sensitive exploration of the problems
of a frustrated, silenced woman, a creature of strong repressed
passions, in an era of highly constrictive marital conventions. The
striking narrative style is a combination of the picaresque, the
sentimental, the realistic, the comic and even the farcical. This
translation of a classic of Swedish literature preserves the
freshness and idiosyncratic flavour of the original. Sarah Death
has over thirty years' experience as a translator from Swedish and
has won the George Bernard Shaw Prize three times. In 2014 she was
awarded the Royal Order of the Polar Star for services to Swedish
literature. She has translated books in a wide variety of genres
including children's stories, crime fiction, literary criticism,
novels by Nobel laureate Selma Lagerloef and the work of many
contemporary writers. She lives and works in Kent.
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Hertha (Paperback)
Fredrika Bremer
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R745
Discovery Miles 7 450
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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