The Waters Under the Earth
Book Details
| Title: | The Waters Under the Earth | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1930 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Grosset & Dunlap | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction | ||||||||||
| Description: | “It is the purpose of Miss Ostenso in her newest novel to champion the revolt of her pretty and wilful heroine, Carlotta Welland, against the stern and ruinous domination of the Welland family by her puritanical father. Mr. Welland is such a zealous Christian that by a fanatical application of his Old-Testament ethics he succeeds in frustrating the lives of his six elder children in varying degrees. Then Carlotta, the seventh, comes along. She is both more attractive and more self-reliant than the others; she avoids open conflict with her father but manages in all important matters to have her way. As she grows up she arranges to be given the college education that the other children had lacked and, when the time comes, instead of marrying the respectable playmate of her childhood, she goes to the lover on whom she has set her heart. Anyone will see that Carlotta is a very subjective heroine indeed.”—The Bookman, December 1930. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 116 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 200  |
Author Bio for Ostenso, Martha
Martha Ostenso (1900-1963) was an American author and screenwriter. Born in Norway, her family emigrated to Manitoba, but eventually settled in the U.S. Midwest. She studied at the University of Manitoba where she met another author, Douglas Durkin whom she married in 1945. They moved to New York where she continued her studies at Columbia University. Ostenso is best known for her critically acclaimed first novel, "Wild Geese". The book is set in rural Manitoba and is known as a landmark work in the new field of literary 'realism'. She adapted the book into a movie which was released in 1927. Ostenso published about a dozen more novels but none achieved as much notoriety as her debut work. (Canadian Encyclopedia, Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature)
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