The Untempered Wind

AUDIO DESCRIPTION:

Play, download and edit the free audio The Untempered Wind.

"description": "LibriVox recording of The Untempered Wind by Joanna E. Wood.
Read in English by Bruce Pirie
Upon publication of \u201cThe Untempered Wind\u201d in 1894, Joanna Wood quickly rose to international prominence, becoming in the next few years the most highly paid fiction-writer in Canada. In this novel, we find a detailed picture of village life. The narrative weaves through a variety of character types: the refined and the coarse, the humble and the self-righteous, the virtuous and the vicious. All these types are measured according to their treatment of Myron Holder, a young unwed mother \u2014 a \u201cfallen woman\u201d in the eyes of this \u201cspiteful, narrow-minded village.\u201d An early reviewer extolled Wood as Canada\u2019s Charlotte Brontë, because of her sympathetic treatment of a disadvantaged woman trying to forge an independent life. An even more apt comparison might be to Thomas Hardy: like Hardy's characters, Myron is buffeted by cruel, relentless Fate \u2014 the \u201cuntempered wind\u201d of the title. In \u201cSilenced Sextet\u201d (a 1993 study of once-popular Canadian women writers who subsequently dropped out of the public eye), Joanna Wood is seen as an important figure in the development of realism in Canadian literature: \u201cNo nineteenth-century writer better presents the sound, smell, and feel of day-to-day village life in this country.\u201d - Summary by Bruce Pirie
For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.

Download, play and edit free videos and free audios from The Untempered Wind using RedcoolMedia.net web apps