Bunner Sisters

9 best books like Bunner Sisters (Edith Wharton): Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, The Return of the Soldier, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean, A Tale of a Tub, Worstward Ho, La azotea, Cara de pan, Estamos todas bien, Clavícula

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Authorbell hooks
ISBN0896086283
Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuality, and society in this inspiring and accessible volume. In engaging and provocative style, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience....
AuthorRebecca West
ISBN0812971221
"I heard, amazed, his step ring strong upon the stone, for I had felt his absence as a kind of death from which he would emerge ghostlike, impalpable."

Two women await the return of a soldier, Chris, from World War I. His wife, Kitty, is an upper-class woman, still mourning the death of their child....
AuthorMay Sinclair
ISBN0860681068
Harriett is the Victorian embodiment of all the virtues then viewed as essential to the womanly ideal: a woman reared to love, honour and obey. Idolising her parents, she learns from childhood to equate love with self-sacrifice, so that when she falls in love with the fiance of her closest friend, there...
AuthorJonathan Swift
ISBN0141018879
'A Tale of a Tub' was the first big work written by Jonathan Swift. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of western Christianity....
AuthorSamuel Beckett
ISBN0394532309
Beckett's second last prose text, Worstward Ho, is a novella written in 1983, shortly after the largely autobiographical Company and an ironic theological speculation, both previously published as the first two parts of a late trilogy of short novels. The concentration of language and precision...
La azotea
AuthorFernanda Trías
ISBN9974322685
“El mundo es esta casa”, dice Clara mientras pretende proteger a sus seres queridos de un exterior que le resulta cada vez más amenazante. Clara se atrinchera con su padre y su hija Flor en un apartamento oscuro que irremediablemente se va desmoronando sobre ellos. La azotea se convierte en su último...
Cara de pan
AuthorSara Mesa
«La primera vez la coge tan desprevenida que se sobresalta al verlo.» El encuentro se produce en un parque. Ella es Casi, una adolescente de «casi» catorce años; él, el Viejo, tiene muchos más.

El primer contacto es casual, pero volverán a verse en más ocasiones. Ella huye de las imposiciones...
Estamos todas bien
AuthorAna Penyas
«Cuando le dije a mi abuela Maruja que iba a hacer un cómic basado en su vida, me respondió que mejor escribiera una historia de amor. Cuando le dije lo mismo a mi abuela Herminia, se alegró mucho y me dijo “sí, claro, nena”. Así que, grabadora en mano, me fui a ver a mi abuela Maruja para que me explicara,por...
Clavícula
AuthorMarta Sanz
ISBN8433998293
Durante un vuelo, a Marta Sanz le duele algo que nunca le había dolido. Un mal oscuro o un flato. A partir de ese instante crece el cómico malestar que desencadena Clavícula: «Voy a contar lo que me ha pasado y lo que no me ha pasado. La posibilidad de que no me haya pasado es lo que más me estremece.» Aquí,...
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