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The well of loneliness

When Lady Anna gives birth to her only child, she and her husband Sir Phillip anticipate a son. When a baby girl is born, Sir Phillip decides to keep the name they had chosen for the child'Stephen. As she grows up, Stephen shows little romantic interest in men and eventually falls in love with Angela Crossby, an unhappily married neighbour. The brief intense affair exposes Stephen to social condemnation for her sexual preference. A swift falling-out with her mother follows, and Stephen builds a life for herself in post-war Paris'becoming a novelist and finding love. Still, the social and religious pressures Stephen faces from the world force her to make the hardest decision of her life. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall is one of the earliest lesbian novels, and received mixed reviews upon its original publication, and once religious and conservative leaders spoke out against the book, an obscenity trial followed. While The Well of Loneliness was ordered destroyed in the UK, it was successfully published in the United States and France, and was reintroduced in the UK and other countries in 1949. To this day, The Well of Loneliness remains one of the most important and studied works in gay and lesbian literature. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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  • "well of loneliness"
  • "Well of loneliness"
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  • "Een lesbische schrijfster bevecht in het post-victoriaanse Engeland haar recht op liefde."
  • "When Lady Anna gives birth to her only child, she and her husband Sir Phillip anticipate a son. When a baby girl is born, Sir Phillip decides to keep the name they had chosen for the child'Stephen. As she grows up, Stephen shows little romantic interest in men and eventually falls in love with Angela Crossby, an unhappily married neighbour. The brief intense affair exposes Stephen to social condemnation for her sexual preference. A swift falling-out with her mother follows, and Stephen builds a life for herself in post-war Paris'becoming a novelist and finding love. Still, the social and religious pressures Stephen faces from the world force her to make the hardest decision of her life. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall is one of the earliest lesbian novels, and received mixed reviews upon its original publication, and once religious and conservative leaders spoke out against the book, an obscenity trial followed. While The Well of Loneliness was ordered destroyed in the UK, it was successfully published in the United States and France, and was reintroduced in the UK and other countries in 1949. To this day, The Well of Loneliness remains one of the most important and studied works in gay and lesbian literature. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library."@en
  • "Based on her own life, The Well of Loneliness tells the story of Sir Philip & Lady Gordon & their daughter. It becomes apparent that she is not like other girls, & falls in love with another woman. The book was banned under the Obscene Publications Act."@en
  • "First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall's own life, it was banned outright upon publication and almost ruined her literary career."@en
  • "Tells the story of Stephen Gordon, a girl born at the turn of century, and her struggle for acceptance as a lesbian."@en
  • "Román anglické spisovatelky, vydaný r. 1928, způsobil tehdy podobné pozdvižení, jako hlavní díla J. Joyce a D.H. Lawrence. Autorka, poučena výtěžky Freudovy psychoanalýzy, se pokouší vystihnout fyzickou i psychickou osamělostlesbické ženy, která je ve společnosti uznávající jen heterosexuální lásku bytostí vyvrženou, nechápanou a přinucenou skrývat své tužby. Svědomitou snahu R. Hallové o pravdivé a rozumějící vypodobnění ocenil i významný sexuologH. Ellis."
  • "Originally published in 1928, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness is the timeless story of a lesbian couple's struggle to be accepted by "polite" society. Shockingly candid for its time, this novel was the very first to condemn homophobic society for its unfair treatment of gays and lesbians."@en
  • "Originally published in 1928, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness is the timeless story of a lesbian couple's struggle to be accepted by "polite" society. Shockingly candid for its time, this novel was the very first to condemn homophobic society for its unfair treatment of gays and lesbians."
  • "Historia de una muchacha cuyos padres habían deseado ardientemente un varón y no una hija. Cómo se propició su natural tendencia a la masculinidad, contribuyendo a torturar su adolescencia. Un género de amor condenado por la sociedad y hasta por la madre de la protagonista."@es
  • ""Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar, Stephen grows up to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions. The Well of Loneliness was banned for obscenity when published in 1928. It became an international bestseller, and for decades was the single most famous lesbian novel. It has influenced how love between women is understood, for the twentieth century and beyond."--Jacket."@en
  • ""Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar, Stephen grows up to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions. The Well of Loneliness was banned for obscenity when published in 1928. It became an international bestseller, and for decades was the single most famous lesbian novel. It has influenced how love between women is understood, for the twentieth century and beyond."--Jacket."
  • "Based on her own life, 'The Well of Loneliness' tells the story of Sir Philip and Lady Gordon and their daughter. It becomes apparent that she is not like other girls, and falls in love with another woman."
  • "<Em>The Well of Loneliness</em> was banned for obscenity when published in 1928. It became an international bestseller, and for decades was the single most famous lesbian novel."@en
  • "I would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel' The Sunday Express Born into an aristocratic family at the end of the Victorian age, Stephen Gordon is so named by parents who had longed for a boy. So begins a life of contradiction and isolation. Attracted to girls and women from an early age, Stephen's masculine appearance is accentuated by her preference for men's clothing and unfeminine mannerisms. When her first, burgeoning affair is cut short by social scandal, she moves to London and becomes a writer. When war breaks out she volunteers."@en

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  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Novels"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Lesbian fiction"@en
  • "Lesbian fiction"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "English fiction"

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  • "Ji mo zhi jing"
  • "אהבת נשים : רומן"
  • "The well of loneliness"@en
  • "The well of loneliness"
  • "Le Puits de la solitude (The Well of loneliness) : Traduction de Melle Léo Lack, revue par Radclyffe Hall et Una Lady Troubridge"
  • "The well of loneliness. With a commentary by Havelock Ellis"@en
  • "PUITS DE SOLITUDE"
  • "Il pozzo della solitudine : romanzo"@it
  • "Il pozzo della solitudine : romanzo"
  • "The well of loneliness, with a commentary by Havelock Ellis"@en
  • "Quell der Einsamkeit"
  • "Le Puits de solitude"
  • "Le puits de solitude"
  • "Quell der Einsamkeit Roman"
  • "Studna osamění"
  • "Quell der Einsamkeit : Roman"
  • "Quell der Einsamkeit : Roman"@en
  • "The Well of loneliness"@en
  • "The Well of loneliness"
  • "Le puits de solitude The well of loneliness"
  • "The well of loneliness : With a comm. by Havelock Ellis"
  • "Studna osamění : připsáno našim třem já"
  • "The Well of Loneliness ... With a commentary by Havelock Ellis"@en
  • "Ensamhetens brunn"@sv
  • "Well Of Loneliness"@en
  • "Le Puits de solitude (The Well of loneliness) : traduit de l'anglais par Léo Lack, revu par Radclyffe Hall et Una Lady Troubridge"
  • "Le puits de solitude = The well of loneliness"
  • "Le puits de solitude (The well of lonliness)"
  • "Well of loneliness"
  • "寂寞之井"
  • "寂寞之井 = The well of loneliness"
  • "Le puits de solitude (the well of loneliness)"
  • "El pozo de la soledad"@es
  • "El pozo de la soledad"
  • "The Well of Loneliness"
  • "The Well of Loneliness"@en
  • "Le puits de solitude = (The Well of Loneliness)"
  • "El Pozo de la soledad"
  • "Quell der Einsamkeit : [Roman]"
  • "The well of loneliness. Reissued"@en
  • "Quell der Einsamkeit von Radclyffe Hall : Mit einem Vorwort von Havelock Ellis. (Ins Deutsche übertragen von Eva Schumann)"
  • "The well of Loneliness"
  • "The well of loneliness : with a commentary by Havelock Ellis"
  • "Il pozzo della solitudine. Romanzo"
  • "The well of loneliness, with a commentary, by Havelock Ellis"@en
  • "Le puits de solitude : Roman"
  • "El Pozo de la Soledad"@es
  • "Studna osamění : Připsáno našim třem já"
  • "Ahavat nashim"
  • "De bron van eenzaamheid"
  • "The well of loneliness; with a commentary by Havelock Ellis"@en
  • "El pozo de la soledad; novela"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Le Puits de solitude (The Well of Loneliness)"
  • "Le puits de solitude = thé well of loneliness / Radclyffe Hall ; tr. Léo Lack"
  • "Le puits de solitude (The well of loneliness)"
  • "Ji mo zhi jing = The well of loneliness"
  • "Il pozzo della solitudine"
  • "Il pozzo della solitudine"@it

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