An Uncommon Heroine
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An Uncommon Heroine

Scarlett, Edna, Sula--and More Than 20 Other of the Most Remarkable Women in Literature

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eBook - ePub

An Uncommon Heroine

Scarlett, Edna, Sula--and More Than 20 Other of the Most Remarkable Women in Literature

About this book

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
-Simone de Beauvoir

Literature has provided us with some of the most unforgettable women in history. From wives and mothers to daughters and lovers, these women all have one thing in common--they're uncommon heroines. This unique collection includes more than twenty great novel excerpts depicting women young and old, wise and weary, flamboyant and cunning such as:
  • Emma Woodhouse in Emma by Jane Austen
  • Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
  • Evelyn Couch in Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg
  • Celie in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

This book celebrates the women we envy, admire, and are inspired by--generation after generation.

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Information

Publisher
Adams Media
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781440504174
eBook ISBN
9781440508783
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. Anne Elliot : IN Persuasion BY Jane Austen
  7. Jane Eyre : IN Jane Eyre BY Charlotte Brontë
  8. Catherine Earnshaw : IN Wuthering Heights BY Emily Brontë
  9. Holly Golightly : IN Breakfast at Tiffany’s BY Truman Capote
  10. Ántonia Shimerda : IN My Ántonia BY Willa Cather
  11. Edna Pontellier : IN The Awakening BY Kate Chopin
  12. Amy Dorrit : IN Little Dorrit BY Charles Dickens
  13. Dorothea Brooke : IN Middlemarch BY George Eliot
  14. Tita de la Garza : IN Like Water for Chocolate BY Laura Esquivel
  15. Gloria Patch : IN The Beautiful and the Damned BY F. Scott Fitzgerald
  16. Tess Durbeyfield : IN Tess of the d’Urbervilles BY Thomas Hardy
  17. Hester Prynne : IN The Scarlet Letter BY Nathaniel Hawthorne
  18. Maria Chapdelaine : IN Maria Chapdelaine BY Louis HĂ©mon
  19. Janie Crawford : IN Their Eyes Were Watching God BY Zora Neale Hurston
  20. Isabel Archer : IN Portrait of a Lady BY Henry James
  21. Taylor Greer : IN The Bean Trees BY Barbara Kingsolver
  22. Rachel : IN Mademoiselle Fifi BY Guy de Maupassant
  23. Scarlett O’Hara : IN Gone with the Wind BY Margaret Mitchell
  24. Sula Peace : IN Sula BY Toni Morrison
  25. Roxane Coss : IN Bel Canto BY Ann Patchett
  26. Indiana : IN Indiana: A Love Story BY George Sand
  27. Winnie Louie : IN The Kitchen God’s Wife BY Amy Tan
  28. Anna Arkadyevna Karenina : IN Anna Karenina BY Leo Tolstoy
  29. Countess Ellen Mingott Olenska : IN The Age of Innocence BY Edith Wharton
  30. Clarissa Dalloway : IN The Voyage Out BY Virginia Woolf

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