The Counterplot by Hope Mirrlees
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"The Counterplot" by Hope Mirrlees is a novel published in 1924. Set in post-World War I England, it follows Teresa Lane, a twenty-eight-year-old woman who observes her own family life as material for artistic transformation. Teresa studies her relationships with her Spanish mother and younger sister, ultimately crafting a play that mirrors her family dynamics. Described by its publisher as "a study of the literary temperament," the novel explores the complex intersection
between lived experience and artistic creation through Teresa's ambitious literary project. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Mirrlees, Hope, 1887-1978 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Counterplot |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Counterplot |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Mary Glenn Krause, Charlene Taylor, University of Chicago, Shawna Milam, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Dramatists -- Fiction |
| Subject | England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| Subject | Families -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 63935 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-63935-2 |
| Release Date | Dec 1, 2020 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 538 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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