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Format: Paperback Vendor: Penguin Classics Publication Date: 1996 | Dimensions: 8.12 X 5.12 (inches) ISBN: 0140433910 ISBN-13: 9780140433913 |
Published in 1869, the same year as John Stuart Mills' The Subjection of Women and while the Divorce Act was a relative novelty, He Knew He Was Right was a timely novel, drawing a fine line between the obedience of women within marriage and their total possession by men.
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Frank Kermode is among our greatest contemporary critics. He has written and edited many works, among them The Sense of Ending and Shakespeares Language.