Mrs Craddock
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
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At the turn of the twentieth century, a headstrong and passionate woman dares to marry beneath her station — and pays dearly for it. Mrs Craddock chronicles the turbulent life of Bertha Ley, an intelligent and romantically idealistic woman who weds Edward Craddock, a stolid, unimaginative farmer, against the wishes of her social circle. What begins as an intoxicating surrender to passion slowly curdles into disillusionment, as Bertha confronts the suffocating reality of a marriage built on incompatibility and the crushing conformity of Edwardian rural England. W. Somerset Maugham — writing with the sharp, unsentimental precision that would define his later masterworks — presents a scathing portrait of marriage, class, and the impossible position of a woman of intellect and desire in a society that refuses to accommodate her. First published in 1902, this early novel anticipates the feminist consciousness of far later decades, arguing with quiet ferocity that a woman's inner life cannot be contained by the institution of marriage. Maugham's cool, ironic prose strips away Victorian sentiment to reveal something bracingly modern — leaving the reader to wonder whether Bertha's tragedy is one of circumstance, or simply the inevitable cost of feeling too much.
Author: W.S. Maugham
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the turn of the twentieth century, a headstrong and passionate woman dares to marry beneath her station — and pays dearly for it. Mrs Craddock chronicles the turbulent life of Bertha Ley, an intelligent and romantically idealistic woman who weds Edward Craddock, a stolid, unimaginative farmer, against the wishes of her social circle. What begins as an intoxicating surrender to passion slowly curdles into disillusionment, as Bertha confronts the suffocating reality of a marriage built on incompatibility and the crushing conformity of Edwardian rural England. W. Somerset Maugham — writing with the sharp, unsentimental precision that would define his later masterworks — presents a scathing portrait of marriage, class, and the impossible position of a woman of intellect and desire in a society that refuses to accommodate her. First published in 1902, this early novel anticipates the feminist consciousness of far later decades, arguing with quiet ferocity that a woman's inner life cannot be contained by the institution of marriage. Maugham's cool, ironic prose strips away Victorian sentiment to reveal something bracingly modern — leaving the reader to wonder whether Bertha's tragedy is one of circumstance, or simply the inevitable cost of feeling too much.