{"product_id":"i-await-the-devils-coming-isbn-9781612191942","title":"I Await the Devil's Coming","description":"Mary MacLane’s \u003ci\u003eI Await the Devil’s Coming\u003c\/i\u003e is a shocking, brave and intellectually challenging diary of a 19-year-old girl living in Butte, Montana in 1902. Written in potent, raw prose that propelled the author to celebrity upon publication, the book has become almost completely forgotten.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the early 20th century, MacLane’s name was synonymous with sexuality; she is widely hailed as being one of the earliest American feminist authors, and critics at the time praised her work for its daringly open and confessional style. In its first month of publication, the book sold 100,000 copies — a remarkable number for a debut author, and one that illustrates MacLane’s broad appeal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, with a new foreward written by critic Jessa Crispin, \u003ci\u003eI Await The Devil’s Coming\u003c\/i\u003e stands poised to renew its reputation as one of America’s earliest and most powerful accounts of feminist thought and creativity.“MacLane deserves canonization alongside Virginia Woolf and Emily Dickinson and Gertrude Stein.”\u003cb\u003e —Emily Gould, author of \u003ci\u003eAnd The Heart Says Whatever\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFriendship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most fascinatingly self-involved personalities of the 20th century.\"  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Age \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e(2011)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mary MacLane comes off the page quivering with life. Moving.\"  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe London Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The first of the self-expressionists, and also the first of the Flappers.\"  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Chicagoan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Her first book was the first of the confessional diaries ever written in this country, and it was a sensation.\"  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“I  know of no other writer who can play upon words so magically. Mary  MacLane is one of the few who actually knows how to write English. She  senses the infinite resilience, the drunken exuber- ance, the  magnificent power \u0026amp; delicacy of the language.” \u003cb\u003e—H.L. Mencken \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A girl wonder.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Harper’s Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A pioneering newswoman and later a silent-screen star, consid- ered the veritable spirit of the iconoclastic Twenties.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A milestone… Heartwarming, sensual and candid, \u003ci\u003eI Await the Devil's Coming\u003c\/i\u003e offers reflections that likely were quite scandalous in their time and remain evocative and powerful today.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCalifornia Bookwatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“She  was an extraordinarily gifted girl. . . She had a natural gift for  crisp and concise expression, a keen, undisciplined intelligence and the  emotional sensibility of a true artist.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003cb\u003eNew York Tribune \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A pioneering feminist. . . A sensation.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Feminist Bookstore News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMARY MACLANE was born on May 1st 1881 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her family moved to Minnesota while she was young, then again to Montana after the death of her father and remarriage of her mother. She began writing for her school paper in 1898 and published her first book, \u003ci\u003eI Await the Devil's Coming\u003c\/i\u003e, under the title \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Mary MacLane\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1902 at the age of nineteen. She published two further books, including the memoir \u003ci\u003eI, Mary MacLane\u003c\/i\u003e in 1917; also in 1917 she wrote and starred in an autobiographical silent film, \u003ci\u003eMen Who Have Made Love to Me\u003c\/i\u003e. She died in mysterious circumstances in Chicago in 1929, at the age of 48, and her works fell almost immediately into obscurity.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304151666917,"sku":"NP9781612191942","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781612191942.jpg?v=1767729606","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/i-await-the-devils-coming-isbn-9781612191942","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}