Many marriages /
"A middle-aged industrialist embraces a gospel of sexual emancipation in this psychological novel. Many Marriages tells of the awakening of a repressed soul who comes to believe in sex as the medium for self-realization. Like then-current works by Sigmund Freud and D. H. Lawrence, the book exci...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Mineola, New York :
Dover Publications, Inc.,
2019.
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| Edition: | Dover edition. |
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| Summary: | "A middle-aged industrialist embraces a gospel of sexual emancipation in this psychological novel. Many Marriages tells of the awakening of a repressed soul who comes to believe in sex as the medium for self-realization. Like then-current works by Sigmund Freud and D. H. Lawrence, the book excited a scandal upon its 1923 publication. In this novel, Anderson continued his use of new psychological insights to explore his characters. His storytelling wrote of sexual freedom, which at the time was deemed obscene. It affected the popularity of his novel, Winesburg, Ohio. Despite this, many writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald praised Anderson and considered Many Marriages his best novel"-- |
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| Item Description: | "This Dover edition, first published in 2019, is an unabridged republication of the work originally printed by the Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, New Jersey, and London, in 1978." |
| Physical Description: | 264 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0486834107 9780486834108 |