The Blazing World and Other Writings

by Margaret Cavendish

Book Overview

The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140433724
• ISBN13: 9780140433722
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher