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Samantha Ellis - How To Be A Heroine, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

How To Be A Heroine

Or, what I’ve learned from reading too much

Av Samantha Ellis

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Beskrivning
Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre?Petrova or Posy?Scarlett or Melanie?Lace or Valley of the Dolls?On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Earnshaw. She was all for wild, passionate Cathy; but her friend found Cathy silly, a snob, while courageous Jane makes her own way.And that’s when Samantha realised that all her life she’d been trying to be Cathy when she should have been trying to be Jane.So she decided to look again at her heroines – the girls, women, books that had shaped her ideas of the world and how to live. Some of them stood up to the scrutiny (she will always love Lizzy Bennet); some of them most decidedly did not (turns out Katy Carr from What Katy Did isn’t a carefree rebel, she’s a drip). There were revelations (the real heroine of Gone with the Wind? It's Melanie), joyous reunions (Anne of Green Gables), poignant memories (Sylvia Plath) and tearful goodbyes (Lucy Honeychurch). And then there was Jilly Cooper...How To Be A Heroine is Samantha’s funny, touching, inspiring exploration of the role of heroines, and our favourite books, in all our lives – and how they change over time, for better or worse, just as we do.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-01-08
  • Mått: 130 x 198 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 194 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780099575566
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The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish refugees, Samantha Ellis is the author of the books How to be a Heroine and Take Courage and her plays include How to Date a Feminist, Cling to me Like Ivy and Operation Magic Carpet. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, TLS, Spectator, Literary Review and more. She worked on the first two Paddington films. She lives in London.

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Any woman with a remotely bookish childhood will find great pleasure in How to be a Heroine... like Ellis, I find it reassuring that Lizzy Bennet can admit that she was wrong about Darcy, have used Scarlett's indomitable mantra in times of adversity, and have every sympathy with the women who keep their bank accounts separate as in Lace

Betyg & recensioner

4 recensioner, genomsnitt 4.5/5

  1. 5/5 Anna H

    Underbart medryckande bok om att läsa och att omvärdera sin ungdoms hjältinnor (eller hjältar för den den). Inspirerade mig att läsa om Wuthering Hights och mycket riktigt blev det en helt annan roman när man läste den som vuxen jämfört med när man var tonåring. Många boktips och insikter i hur mycket vår "kanon" av här i Sverige skiljer sig från den anglosaxiska trots allt. Om du vill utveclas som bokmal så läs denna. Dessutom är den en perfekt present till bokälskaren...

  2. 5/5 Anne P

    Denna humoristiska, feministiska och allvarliga bok är ett fantastiskt incitament för att läsa om eller upptäcka spännande och tankeväckande böcker från de senaste två hundra åren. Det är bara att ge sig i äventyret!!!

  3. 3/5 Anne
  4. 5/5 Maria

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