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Plot summary [ edit ] This is the story of Dimple Dasgupta who has an arranged marriage to Amit Basu, an engineer, instead of marrying a neurosurgeon as she had dreamed about.
Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review was a literature periodical founded in 1932 by L. C. Knights and F. R. Leavis, who remained its principal editor until the final issue in 1953. [1] Other editors included D. W. Harding and Harold Andrew Mason .
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A Wife, a 1614 poem by Sir Thomas Overbury "The Wife", an 1819 essay by Washington Irving from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Wife, a 1975 novel by Bharati Mukherjee; The Wife, a 2003 novel by Meg Wolitzer; The Wife, an 1833 play by James Sheridan Knowles; Wife, a 2019 play by Samuel Adamson
She concludes, "if The Wife is a puzzle and an entertainment, it's also a near heartbreaking document of feminist realpolitik." [3] Publishers Weekly also provided a positive review: " Wolitzer's crisp pacing and dry wit carry us headlong into a devastating message about the price of love and fame. If it's a story we've heard before, the tale ...
Each of the sections begins with a possible translation of "Hwaet", the word that begins Beowulf.The sections are told from different perspectives: Dana narrates in first person, Willa and Ben in third, and the ancestors living in the mountain, mothers of Herot, and dogs in first person plural.
LibriVox recording by Karen Savage. Pride and Prejudice is the second novel by English author Jane Austen, published in 1813.A novel of manners, it follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
The theme of the Prologue is repeated in the main action, Anne and Blanche being the daughters of the abandoned women and her dearest friend. Apart from the marriage laws of Scotland, discussed above, Collins attacks the legal disadvantages of married women – also a mainspring of the plot of The Woman in White – and the cult of athleticism.