{"product_id":"the-open-heart-isbn-9781835622551","title":"The Open Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003ePublished for the first time, The Open Heart is a telling tale of unfulfilment from the supportive, but long-neglected wife of H.G. Wells.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatherine Wells (1872–1927) was the wife of H.G. Wells and the author of short stories, poems and an unfinished novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Open Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, a haunting study of a woman’s sense of unfulfilment that adds significantly to our knowledge of early 20th-century feminism. Published here for the first time, \u003ci\u003eThe Open Heart\u003c\/i\u003e is brought together with her stories and poems that appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Catherine Wells \u003c\/i\u003e(1928).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Open Heart\u003c\/i\u003e tells of a woman’s shipwreck on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean, a kind of earthly paradise in which she finds herself entirely alone. Included, too, in this collection are Catherine Wells' highly accomplished tales of forbidden love, of a woman’s subjection to a dominant and possessive husband and of female despair. These stories illustrate what H.G. Wells called ‘her brooding tenderness’, her ‘sense of invincible fatality’ and her ‘predisposition towards a haunting, dreamland fantasy of fear’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eFlame Tree Beyond and Within\u003c\/b\u003e short story collections bring together tales of myth and imagination by modern and contemporary writers, carefully selected by anthologists, and sometimes featuring short stories from a single author. Overall, the series presents a wide range of diverse and inclusive voices with myth, folkloric-inflected short fiction, and an emphasis on the supernatural, science fiction, the mysterious and the speculative.","brand":"Flame Tree Collections","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47831570972901,"sku":"NP9781835622551","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/44e74071-fc4e-4e26-a542-b1ba0025e39b.jpg?v=1760385974","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-open-heart-isbn-9781835622551","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}