{"product_id":"story-of-avis-book-elizabeth-phelps-9781446009208","title":"The Story Of Avis","description":"One of the most prolific and popular American writers of her time, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is, nearly a century later, once more coming to be considered a major author. The Story of Avis, her most ambitious and successful novel, has long been out of print and will prove a revelation to modern readers. Avis is the story of a larger-than-life heroine, a promising artist, who against her better judgment is persuaded by her lover, Philip Ostrander--a new man--to marry. The failure of their modern marriage, and in due course of Avis's career, is inevitable. Phelps depicts the turmoil of her characters' inner lives with great sensitivity and with a skill that is striking. A feminist who clearly saw the constraints of traditional gender roles upon women and men, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps was ahead of her own time in post-Civil War America. She remains highly readable today. The Story of Avis (1877) will shock any reader who still thinks nineteenth-century American women's fiction is sentimental and pious. This novel is angry, not sentimental; iconoclastic, not pious; it concerns a talented and dedicated painter whose marriage destroys her genius.--Choice This ornately articulate novel is playful; both kind and hopeful in its vision of the female conundrum. . . . I had intended to speed read  it]. I ready every word.--Joyce Bright, Belles Lettres","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51132569387281,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51132572139793,"sku":"NIN9781446009208","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1446009203.jpg?v=1750956177","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/story-of-avis-book-elizabeth-phelps-9781446009208","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}