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100 1 _aLeigh, Larry
245 1 4 _aThe True Grecian Bend: A Story in Verse
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2021
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2021-03-04
508 _adeaurider, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"The True Grecian Bend: A Story in Verse" by Larry Leigh is a satirical poem written in the late 19th century. This book mixes poetry and social commentary, focusing on the absurdities of fashion and societal expectations surrounding women's appearances during that era. The narrative critiques the lengths to which individuals, especially women, would go in the pursuit of beauty as defined by contemporary standards. The story centers around a fashionable woman in France who suffers from a spinal disease that causes her back to curve. Initially anguished by her condition and the loss of her social standing, she devises a way to embrace her deformity as a new trend: the "True Grecian bend." As she showcases her new look on the Boulevards, other women begin to mimic her style, leading to a bloom of similarly contorted figures in society. Leigh contrasts this superficial embrace of pain with the true struggles of less fortunate women, suggesting that the true model of beauty is born from genuine hardship. The narrative pokes fun at societal norms while highlighting deeper issues of class and aesthetics. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aPoetry
653 _aStories in rhyme
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64689
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