Vintage Heroines
Here’s a stunning new series from Vintage where you’ll meet some of literature's most iconic heroines from classic and contemporary works. These editions feature new, compelling covers, taken by female photographers from around the world. Meet unforgettable women—young and old, daring, defiant, flawed and real—in these pages.
‘I Capture the Castle’ tells the story of 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, who begins journaling to document the details of her family and the ruined Suffolk castle she calls home. Laced with whimsy and sentiment, this comes to us from Dodie Smith, the same author who gave us the beloved ‘101 Dalmatians’!
‘Madame Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert tells the story of Emma, a woman who, trapped in a lifeless marriage with a country doctor, dreams of a better life for herself. A seminal piece of realist literature, ‘Madame Bovary’ examines the interior life of a woman who is simply looking for more.
‘20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth’ by Xiaolu Guo is a coming-of-age story about an impassioned young woman named Fenfang Wang, who travels to Beijing to chase her dreams, and finds herself a job as a film extra. Fenfang learns to navigate politics and sexism and independence in turn-of-the-century Beijing, in this novel written in fragments and translated from Chinese.
The collection includes other contemporary and classic works from around the world, like Sapphire’s ‘Push’, ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Brontë, and NoViolet Bulawayo’s ‘We Need New Names’—all in beautiful new jackets featuring photographs of women, by women!