The Hermaphrodite

by Julia Ward Howe

Book Overview

Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia Ward Howe's novel about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its time--or, in truth, of our own. Narrated by Laurence, who is raised and lives as a man and is loved by men and women alike, yet can respond to neither, this unconventional story explores the realization "that fervent hearts must borrow the disguise of art, if they would win the right to express, in any outward form, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803218877
• ISBN13: 9780803218871
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"