She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.
In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time..
Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature\'s greatest writers.
The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers.
What Newsweek calls Chopin\'s ``prophetic psychology`` insures its timeliness today.
Condemned as ``sordid`` and ``immoral`` on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin\'s career but was revived as a proto-feminist classic in the 1970s.
She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before
