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041 7 _aen
_2iso639-1
050 4 _aPR
100 1 _aBenson, Stella,
_d1892-1933
245 1 0 _aLiving Alone
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2005
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2005-02-04
508 _aProduced by Jonathan Ingram, Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
520 _a"Living Alone" by Stella Benson is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book explores themes of individuality and the eccentricities of social committees in wartime London, blending elements of magic and whimsicality. The opening introduces a peculiar assembly of women on a committee tasked with war savings, where a chaotic stranger emerges, shaking up their structured lives with her unconventional ideas. At the start of the story, we are introduced to a committee meeting that is disrupted by the entrance of a young woman referred to as the Stranger, who crawls under the table. As she introduces herself and her motivations, the members react with a mix of intrigue and judgment, reflecting the rigid nature of their committee work. The Stranger’s free-spirited nature and her whimsical complaint about the state of her life create a stark contrast to the serious tone of the meeting. Her claims about having "squandered" a large amount of money in a single day reveal an underlying critique of societal expectations during the war. This initial interaction sets the stage for a narrative that blends magic and reality as it delves into the lives of women struggling against societal norms and the search for genuine connections in a world that often values conformity over individuality. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aFantasy literature
653 _aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
653 _aLondon (England) -- Fiction
653 _aWitches -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14907
999 _c56295
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