UID:
almafu_9959677743902883
Format:
1 online resource (192 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-90437-X
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9786612904370
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0-8223-8201-6
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Content:
The target of intense critical comment when it was first published in 1927, Arrogant Beggar's scathing attack on charity-run boardinghouses remains one of Anzia Yezierska's most devastating works of social criticism. The novel follows the fortunes of its young Jewish narrator, Adele Lindner, as she leaves the impoverished conditions of New York's Lower East Side and tries to rise in the world. Portraying Adele's experiences at the Hellman Home for Working Girls, the first half of the novel exposes the "sickening farce" of institutionalized charity while portraying the class tensions that divid
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Introduction by Katherine Stubbs; Arrogant Beggar
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-1752-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-1749-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822382010
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822382010
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822382010
