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The World's Wife is Carol Ann Duffy's fifth collection of poetry. Her previous collection, Standing Female Nude, is tied to romantic and amorous themes, while her collection The Other Country takes a more indifferent approach to love; The World's Wife continues this progression in that it critiques male figures, masculinity, and heterosexual love to instead focus on forgotten or neglected ...
The World's Wife was created based on stories of heroes that were an inspiration to her. [1] Duffy also believed that these tales and stories did not interpret the truth. Duffy's belief in feminist literary criticism is apparent as she believed that in order to find the truth, the female character was to be dominant.
The World's Wife, a collection of poems by Carol Ann Duffy, features a sonnet entitled "Anne Hathaway", based on the passage from Shakespeare's will regarding his "second-best bed". Duffy chooses the view that this would be their marriage bed, and so a memento of their love, not a slight.
The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy , consisting of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun , The Last War in the World and The World Set Free .
The book will be published by Simon & Schuster on Aug. 13. While the book's description does not explicitly mention Mulaney or her former marriage, it will cover her experience being hospitalized ...
Marietta Holley (pen names, Jemyma, later, Josiah Allen's Wife; [1] July 16, 1836 – March 1, 1926), was an American humorist who used satire to comment on U.S. society and politics. Holley enjoyed a prolific writing career and was a bestselling author in the late 19th century, though she was largely forgotten by the time of her death.
The Pilot's Wife : A Novel is a 1998 novel by Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the third novel in Shreve's informal trilogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent. It is preceded by Fortune's Rocks and Sea Glass. The novel was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection for March 1999.
The Wife is a 2003 novel by American writer Meg Wolitzer. The book was adapted into a film released in 2017, directed by Björn L. Runge , written by Jane Anderson , and starring Glenn Close , Jonathan Pryce , and Christian Slater .