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Stella Dallas: A Novel of Love, Sacrifice, and Class
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515449294
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Dec 7 2020
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A powerful early twentieth-century novel of maternal devotion, social aspiration, and the cost of self-sacrifice.
In Stella Dallas, Olive Higgins Prouty presents the moving story of a woman determined that her daughter shall have advantages she herself never possessed. Stella, spirited and ambitious, marries into a more refined social world but never entirely belongs within it. As the years pass, her love for her daughter becomes both her defining strength and her quiet tragedy.
Prouty examines class aspiration, emotional vulnerability, and the subtle cruelties of social distinction with steady restraint. Stella's efforts to secure her daughter's future demand increasing personal sacrifice, culminating in one of the most poignant conclusions in American domestic fiction. The novel's enduring power lies in its refusal to sentimentalise either ambition or devotion; instead, it renders both with psychological clarity and moral seriousness.
First published in 1923, Stella Dallas became a widely read and frequently adapted work, securing Prouty's reputation as a novelist attentive to the emotional complexities of women navigating the expectations of modern society.
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