Women and Fiction: Short Stories by and about WomenSusan Cahill Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1975 - 379 pagine From Kate Chopin, writing in the late nineteenth century, to Alice Walker, writing today, this unique collection of twenty-six short stories celebrates the specialness of growing up female, of being a daughter, sister, wife, mother, girlfriend, lover. The women in these stories - from all over the world and from all walks of life - experience love, sex, marriage, work, divorce, loneliness, longing, and friendship in revealing scenes that are instantly familiar. |
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Kate Chopin 18511904 | 1 |
Willa Cather 18731947 | 27 |
SidonieGabrielle Colette 18731954 | 36 |
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