{"product_id":"open-heart-2","title":"Open Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003eCatherine Wells (1872–1927) was the wife of H.G. Wells and the author of short stories, poems and an unfinished novella, \u003cem\u003eThe Open Heart\u003c\/em\u003e, a haunting study of a woman’s sense of unfulfilment that adds significantly to our knowledge of early 20th-century feminism. Published here for the first time, \u003cem\u003eThe Open Heart\u003c\/em\u003e is brought together with her stories and poems that appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Catherine Wells \u003c\/em\u003e(1928).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Open Heart\u003c\/em\u003e tells of a woman’s shipwreck on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean, a kind of earthly paradise in which she finds herself entirely alone. Included, too, in this collection are Catherine Wells' highly accomplished tales of forbidden love, of a woman’s subjection to a dominant and possessive husband and of female despair. These stories illustrate what H.G. Wells called ‘her brooding tenderness’, her ‘sense of invincible fatality’ and her ‘predisposition towards a haunting, dreamland fantasy of fear’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eFlame Tree Beyond and Within\u003c\/strong\u003e short story collections bring together tales of myth and imagination by modern and contemporary writers, carefully selected by anthologists, and sometimes featuring short stories from a single author. Overall, the series presents a wide range of diverse and inclusive voices with myth, folkloric-inflected short fiction, and an emphasis on the supernatural, science fiction, the mysterious and the speculative.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flame Tree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243346678104,"sku":"9781835622551","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781835622551.jpg?v=1780400735","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/open-heart-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}