The Dangerous Age

by Karin Michaëlis and Karin (Intro. Marcel Prevost) Michaelis

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Elsie Lindtner is a woman at the "dangerous age" of forty-two in a society that values women only as marriageable items. After twenty-two years of comfortable but loveless marriage, Elsie divorces her husband and goes off to live alone on an island. But little by little her longing for solitude is tempered by the realities of loneliness and sexual deprivation.

First published in 1910 to raves and outrage, selling over a million copies and inspiring...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0810110156

ISBN13:9780810110151

Release Date:December 1991

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:215 Pages

Weight:0.56 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

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