Stella Dallas
Start Publishing LLC · Paperback · March 23, 2021
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- Who it’s for
- A sharp look at ambition, marriage, and the social borders that prove hard to cross.
- Genres
- Marriage & Divorce, Women's Fiction, 20th-Century Historical Fiction
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, March 23, 2021
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Stella Dallas a pretty working class girl decides she wants more out of life than drudgery and work. She sets her sights on marry rich and she manages it. But she soon finds that marrying a rich man and keeping him are not the same things. Course and vulgar by upper class standards she is unable to bridge the cultural divide that separates them. When Stella and her husband inevitably divorce she shifts her ambitions to her daughter.
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But can she be any more successful at helping her daughter fit into that world than she was herself? Stella Dallas has captivated audiences since it first appeared. It has been successfully adapted three times for the screen and once as a radio play and is credited with creating the modern soap opera. Barbara Stanwyck garnered an Oscar nomination for playing the title role.
Ambition and Belonging
A sharp look at ambition, marriage, and the social borders that prove hard to cross.
Come here for
- A marriage strained by class and cultural divides
- A mother’s hopes for her daughter
Expect
- Domestic drama with a focus on class
- A story of aspirations passed from mother to daughter
Where it sits
| Marriage & Divorce | 48% |
|---|---|
| 20th-Century Historical Fiction | 38% |
| Women's Fiction | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Literary Fiction
- Cultural Heritage Fiction
- Authors
- Olive Higgins Prouty
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- March 23, 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Literary Fiction