{"product_id":"spleen-1","title":"Spleen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Olive Moore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781628977004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781628977011\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 18th, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRacked with guilt after giving birth to a “deformed” child, a woman exiles herself to a remote Italian village in this recovered masterpiece of feminist modernism.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOlive Moore is the best-kept secret in British literature. \u003cem\u003eSpleen\u003c\/em\u003e, the most important of her three novels, tells the disturbing story of a woman who goes into self-imposed exile to an island off the coast of Italy after an unplanned pregnancy culminates in the birth of a severely disabled child. Filled with self-reproach and guilt, believing that her antagonistic feelings towards her son in the womb caused his condition, Ruth broods on what it means to be a woman (“nature's oven for nature's bun”) and the inequalities between the sexes. In a style reminiscent of Virginia Woolf, \u003cem\u003eSpleen\u003c\/em\u003e challenges the assumption that women can't help but be tender and maternal, that their heads are only “ever-enlarging hearts.“\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery little is known of \u003cstrong\u003eOlive Moore\u003c\/strong\u003e’s life. She was born Miriam Constance Beaumont Vaughan in Hereford, England in 1901. She worked as a reporter for the London Daily Sketch and wrote four brilliant books between 1929 and 1934—\u003cem\u003eCelestial Seraglio\u003c\/em\u003e (1929), \u003cem\u003eSpleen\u003c\/em\u003e (1930), \u003cem\u003eFugue\u003c\/em\u003e (1932), and \u003cem\u003eThe Apple Is Bitten Again\u003c\/em\u003e (1934)—that earned her a reputation as an \u003cem\u003eenfant terrible\u003c\/em\u003e of British literature. She was long thought to have disappeared from the literary scene in 1934, but recent research has shown that she wrote for \u003cem\u003eScope: Magazine for Industry\u003c\/em\u003e (between 1942 and 1959), as well as other publications. She passed away in 1979.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49326972207259,"sku":"9781628977004","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":49326972240027,"sku":"9781628977011","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0594\/2915\/9067\/files\/DAP_CoverPlaceholderImage.jpg?v=1786994364","url":"https:\/\/dalkeyarchive.store\/products\/spleen-1","provider":"Dalkey Archive Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}