Mary, Mary
Автор:
James StephensЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2024-10-24Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
43
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mary Makebelieve shares a small room with her mother, a charwoman, in the tenements of early twentieth-century Dublin. While Mrs. Makebelieve is at work cleaning the houses of the wealthy, Mary wanders around the city and its parks absorbed in daydreams. Her encounter with a policeman who appears to signal romantic interest in her is the beginning of Mary’s coming-of-age story, which combines elements of folk- or fairytale with a complex vision of human psychology and the relations between various social groups: mothers and daughters, men and women, the rich and the poor, the young and the old.
Written in 1910 and first published the following year as a serial in the short-lived Irish Review (a periodical...
