The Waters of Bitterness
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Fox, S. M.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Waters of Bitterness: A Play in Three Acts and the Clodhopper; An Incredible Comedy It is said that (with obvious exceptions) the British public doesn´t care to read plays, even when it receives them embroidered with brilliant - sometimes almost incongruously brilliant and witty - stage directions. And it is believed by some, that an enkindling preface may help to overcome this coyness, tempting a careless reader who has picked up a volume, to pursue his investigation further. To be captured by such a preface is one thing : to be able to write one is quite another. And I must admit at once that my spirits are not high enough to attempt such an escapade. Nevertheless I should like to introduce these plays with a few words of explanation. In The Waters of Bitterness I have striven to present a woman who (from a superficial point of view) is almost wholly negative-poor rather than rich; elderly rather than young; plain rather than beautiful. For Miss Marsden is neither brilliant nor fascinating, nor particularly clever. She isn´t even bad. She is simply ordinary - just one of a multitude; the by-product of our upper middle-class civilisation. Not having had sufficient charm - or luck - to tempt the other sex down the amorous path of marriage, and never having caught enough of its energy to start a career for themselves, such women remain (in a social sense) unemployed and unemployable. Can that be why we so often call them "insupportable"? In England they hedge themselves in little genteel villas. On the Continent they drift from pension to pension. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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