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The Woman of Andros: A Novel of Love and Loss: A Novel of Love and Loss
Paperback
Publisher: Impact
Published: Mar 30 2026
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A luminous and quietly devastating novel of love, grief, and spiritual awakening, The Woman of Andros by Thornton Wilder draws on classical sources to create a work of striking emotional and philosophical depth. First published in 1930, the novel reimagines material from ancient Greek and Roman literature while shaping it into a modern narrative concerned with memory, longing, and the fragile structures of human connection.
Set on a remote island suspended between the classical and the immediate, the story follows the lives of those drawn into the orbit of Gyllis, a woman whose presence carries both mystery and emotional gravity. Around her, figures shaped by duty, desire, and uncertainty move through a landscape where ordinary experience acquires the weight of allegory. Wilder allows the narrative to unfold through quiet shifts in perception, where relationships deepen, falter, and are redefined by loss and recognition.
Rather than reproducing classical form, Wilder adapts it into a restrained and reflective prose style, combining elements of ancient drama with the inward focus of twentieth-century literary fiction. Themes of mortality, attachment, and spiritual searching are treated with clarity and composure, giving the novel a sustained emotional resonance without excess.
This edition presents the original text in a clear and stable format, offering a carefully structured reading experience of one of Wilder's earliest and most distinctive works.
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