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Amalie Skram Lucie (Paperback). What had made her alluring as a mistress makes her unacceptable as a wife. His attempts to govern her behaviour develop gradually into a harsh tyranny against which she rebels in a manner which brings misery and despair to both. Further DetailsTitle: Lucie Condition: New Description: This novel tells the story of the misalliance between Lucie, a vivacious and beautiful dancing girl from Tivoli, and Theodor Gerner, a respectable lawyer from the strait-laced middle society of nineteenth-century Norway. Having first kept her as a mistress, Gerner is so captivated by Lucie's charms that he marries her, only to discover that his project to turn her into a proper and demure housewife is continually frustrated by her irrepressible sensuality and lack of fine breeding. What had made her alluring as a mistress makes her unacceptable as a wife. His attempts to govern her behaviour develop gradually into a harsh tyranny against which she rebels in a manner which brings misery and despair to both. Amalie Skram, a contemporary of Ibsen, expresses the same criticism of repressive social mores and hypocrisy here as he does in plays like A Doll's House and Ghosts, although in a deeply personal way. In this novel from 1888, as in her other novels, she makes an impassioned statement on the double standard, contributing to the great debate about sexual morality which engaged many Scandinavian writers in the late nineteenth century. She also presents a closely observed realistic depiction of a lively cross-section of Kristiania society from the turn of the century, ranging from high society dress parties to arid country cottages to dark and dingy tenements reeking of poverty. Author: Amalie Skram EAN: 9781909408081 Contributor: Judith Messick (Translated by), Katherine Hanson (Translated by) ISBN: 9781909408081 Format: Paperback Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 9mm Genre: Fiction Publisher: Norvik Press Release Date: 07/01/2014 Item Weight: 174g Translator: Judith Messick, Katherine Hanson Release Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
