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The Bostonians
The Bostonians
Author: Henry James
From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women." She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, a veter...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780553211535
ISBN-10: 0553211536
Publication Date: 6/1/1984
Pages: 398
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Publisher: Bantam Classics
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will Basil Ransom, a conservative southern lawyer, steal Verena's heart and remove her from the limelight?


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