"Man and Maid" by Elinor Glyn, is a story set around World War I that shows the life of Sir Nicholas Thormande, a soldier trying to adjust to life after war due to injuries. While wealthy, he is detached from the world and ponders tough questions about love and women in that time period, including Nina, a widow of a soldier. Nicholas examines his sense of separation through relationships with the women, revealing the complicated social norms and ideas about love during wartime and his indifference to life.
Man and Maid
By Elinor Glyn
A war-torn soldier, scarred both inside and out, searches for meaning among societal expectations and complicated connections with women after the first World War.
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About the AuthorElinor Glyn was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction, which was considered scandalous for its time, although her works are relatively tame by modern standards. She popularized the concept of the it-girl, and had tremendous influence on early 20th-century popular culture and, possibly, on the careers of notable Hollywood stars such as Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson and, especially, Clara Bow.
Elinor Glyn was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction, which was considered scandalous for its time, although her works are relatively tame by modern standards. She popularized the concept of the it-girl, and had tremendous influence on early 20th-century popular culture and, possibly, on the careers of notable Hollywood stars such as Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson and, especially, Clara Bow.
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