Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing from 19th-century survey images to

from 19th-century survey images to modern works

translated from the French original Un été enchanté

Year: 1952

Publisher:  Farrar Straus & Giroux

Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing from 19th-century survey images toThis powerful, naturalistic compilation gathers fifteen distinct short stories and novellas that explore the psychological, social, and economic traps binding individuals in modern industrial society. The narrative structures use the central metaphor of "chains" to examine how human lives are systematically constrained by invisible forcessuch as marital convention, poverty, sudden wealth, religious guilt, and biological drives. Moving from the stark