The wife of Martin Guerre / Janet Lewis ; introduction by Kevin Haworth ; afterword by Larry McMurtry
- Author
- Lewis, Janet, 1899-1998
- Published
- Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2013.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 116 pages)
- Additional Creators
- Haworth, Kevin, 1971- and McMurtry, Larry
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Introduction / Kevin Haworth -- Foreword for the first Swallow Press edition / Janet Lewis -- The wife of Martin Guerre. Artigues ; Rieux ; Toulouse -- Afterword : the return of Janet Lewis / Larry McMurtry.
- Summary
- In this edition of the classic short novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre, the editor writes that the author's story is "a ... novel of astonishing depth and resonance, a sharply drawn historical tale that asks contemporary questions about identity and belonging, about men and women, and about an individual's capacity to act within an inflexible system." Originally published in 1941, the novel has earned the respect and admiration of critics and readers for over sixty years. Based on a notorious trial in sixteenth-century France, this story of Bertrande de Rols is the first of three novels making up the author's Cases of Circumstantial Evidence suite.
- Subject(s)
- Guerre, Bertrande de Rols, active 1539-1560—Fiction
- Guerre, Martin, active 1539-1560—Fiction
- Guerre, Bertrande de Rols, active 1539-1560
- Guerre, Martin, active 1539-1560
- 1500-1599
- Impostors and imposture—Fiction
- FICTION—General
- Social conditions
- Impostors and imposture
- France—Social conditions—16th century—Fiction
- France—Conditions sociales—16e siècle—Romans, nouvelles, etc
- France
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780804040532 (electronic bk.)
0804040532 (electronic bk.)
0804011435
9780804011433 - Digital File Characteristics
- text file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
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