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New to Penguin Modern Classics, the seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller.

The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to women. Charting her romantic and professional adventures during the First World War and beyond, the novel provoked a furore on first publication in 1928 for its lesbian heroine and led to a notorious legal trial for obscenity. Hall herself, however, saw the book as a pioneer work and today it is recognised as a landmark work of gay fiction.

This Penguin edition includes a new introduction by Maureen Duffy.

''The archetypal lesbian novel'' - Times Literary Supplement

''One of the first and most influential contributions of gay and lesbian lit

The Well of Loneliness Penguin Modern Classics

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/02/2015
      ISBN13: 9780141191836, 978-0141191836
      ISBN10: 014119183X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      New to Penguin Modern Classics, the seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller.

      The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to women. Charting her romantic and professional adventures during the First World War and beyond, the novel provoked a furore on first publication in 1928 for its lesbian heroine and led to a notorious legal trial for obscenity. Hall herself, however, saw the book as a pioneer work and today it is recognised as a landmark work of gay fiction.

      This Penguin edition includes a new introduction by Maureen Duffy.

      ''The archetypal lesbian novel'' - Times Literary Supplement

      ''One of the first and most influential contributions of gay and lesbian lit

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