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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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An Uncommon Heroine
Scarlett, Edna, Sula--and More Than 20 Other of the Most Remarkable Women in Literature
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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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- INTRODUCTION
- Anne Elliot : IN Persuasion BY Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre : IN Jane Eyre BY Charlotte Brontë
- Catherine Earnshaw : IN Wuthering Heights BY Emily Brontë
- Holly Golightly : IN Breakfast at Tiffany’s BY Truman Capote
- Ántonia Shimerda : IN My Ántonia BY Willa Cather
- Edna Pontellier : IN The Awakening BY Kate Chopin
- Amy Dorrit : IN Little Dorrit BY Charles Dickens
- Dorothea Brooke : IN Middlemarch BY George Eliot
- Tita de la Garza : IN Like Water for Chocolate BY Laura Esquivel
- Gloria Patch : IN The Beautiful and the Damned BY F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Tess Durbeyfield : IN Tess of the d’Urbervilles BY Thomas Hardy
- Hester Prynne : IN The Scarlet Letter BY Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Maria Chapdelaine : IN Maria Chapdelaine BY Louis Hémon
- Janie Crawford : IN Their Eyes Were Watching God BY Zora Neale Hurston
- Isabel Archer : IN Portrait of a Lady BY Henry James
- Taylor Greer : IN The Bean Trees BY Barbara Kingsolver
- Rachel : IN Mademoiselle Fifi BY Guy de Maupassant
- Scarlett O’Hara : IN Gone with the Wind BY Margaret Mitchell
- Sula Peace : IN Sula BY Toni Morrison
- Roxane Coss : IN Bel Canto BY Ann Patchett
- Indiana : IN Indiana: A Love Story BY George Sand
- Winnie Louie : IN The Kitchen God’s Wife BY Amy Tan
- Anna Arkadyevna Karenina : IN Anna Karenina BY Leo Tolstoy
- Countess Ellen Mingott Olenska : IN The Age of Innocence BY Edith Wharton
- Clarissa Dalloway : IN The Voyage Out BY Virginia Woolf