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The Blazing World and Other Writings

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The Blazing World and Other Writings

By: Margaret Cavendish
Narrated by: Abigail Thaw
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This Penguin Classic is performed by Abigail Thaw, best known for her role as Dorothea Frazil in Endeavour. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Kate Lilley, also read by Abigail Thaw.

Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most striking figures: a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics, science, philosophy and literature. The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man.

Public Domain (P)2020 Penguin Audio
Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Short Stories Middle Ages Law

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Really appreciate this early fiction by an accomplished "authoress" whose work piggy too be as recognized as Utopia, Candide , or other travel fantasies from the European "Age of Discovery." It was tough to get through the extremely detailed parts on natural philosophy, but I enjoyed times that followed characters through fanciful realms.

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