Wrath of Dionysus

<p>This outstanding edition of <i>The Wrath of Dionysus</i> marks the first appearance of (Nagrodskaia's) work in English. Let us hope her other novels quickly follow. --The Midwest Book Review<br /><br /><i>The Wrath of Dionysus</i> is translated well and has just enough notes to explain what is not available to the late-twentieth-century reader. Louise Reynolds should be commended for bringing us this work by Evdokia Nagrodskaya a writer unknown to English-speaking audiences and even to contemporary Russians. --Lambda Book Report<br /><br />This novel has everything--love romance lust travel adventure. Yowee! --Richard Stites<br /><br />. . . highly recommended for collections of Slavic literature as well as popular fiction. --Library Journal<br /><br />A woman trying to balance career and family. Confusion over sexual identity and gender roles. Unwed motherhood. The themes of <i>The Wrath of Dionysus</i> sound so contemporary that it may surprise readers to find them in a Russian novel published more than 80 years ago. --Publishers Weekly<br /><br />Evdokia Nagrodskaia's novel <i>The Wrath of Dionysus</i> with its theme of gender roles and sexual identity became a sensational and controversial bestseller soon after it hit Russian bookstores in 1910. Long before postmodernism suggested that gender was a social construct rather than a biological absolute Nagrodskaia's novel put this issue before middle-class Russian audiences hungry for popular fiction. A revealing historical glimpse at the pre-revolutionary Russian middle class but also a good old-fashioned page-turner!</p>