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The Well of Loneliness
The Well of Loneliness
Author: Radclyffe Hall
The love that dared not speak its name. — The well of Loneliness outraged two continents - not because it dealt with homosexual love, but because it dealt sympathetically with a subject that novelists were expected to ridicule and condemn. — It made too poignant the tortured existence of a girl at odds with her conscience and her world - a girl wh...  more »
ISBN: 304548
Publication Date: 12/1974
Pages: 437
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Publisher: Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Originally "published in 1928, "The Well of Loneliness" was the first novel to portray fully the life of a lesbian woman--and the ostracism she suffers."

This classic was banned when it was first published in England. This should be on the bookshelf of any lesbian that enjoys literature.
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