Project Gutenberg 2021-03-04 Public domain in the USA. 88 Leigh, Larry Warner, Lewis T. Warner, L. T. (Lewis T.) Warner, Louis T. 31025142 The True Grecian Bend: A Story in Verse deaurider, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The True Grecian Bend: A Story in Verse" by Larry Leigh is a satirical poem written in the late 19th century. This book mixes poetry and social commentary, focusing on the absurdities of fashion and societal expectations surrounding women's appearances during that era. The narrative critiques the lengths to which individuals, especially women, would go in the pursuit of beauty as defined by contemporary standards. The story centers around a fashionable woman in France who suffers from a spinal disease that causes her back to curve. Initially anguished by her condition and the loss of her social standing, she devises a way to embrace her deformity as a new trend: the "True Grecian bend." As she showcases her new look on the Boulevards, other women begin to mimic her style, leading to a bloom of similarly contorted figures in society. Leigh contrasts this superficial embrace of pain with the true struggles of less fortunate women, suggesting that the true model of beauty is born from genuine hardship. The narrative pokes fun at societal norms while highlighting deeper issues of class and aesthetics. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 73.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Poetry Stories in rhyme PS Text Category: Poetry Category: Humour Category: Fashion 55508 2025-06-25T12:11:41.117935 text/html 31879 2024-10-18T11:36:32 text/html 685532 2025-06-25T12:11:43.326865 application/epub+zip 683962 2025-06-25T12:11:41.656902 application/epub+zip 81662 2025-06-25T12:11:41.378901 application/epub+zip 720699 2025-06-25T12:11:44.629941 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 712320 2025-06-25T12:11:43.064942 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 111625 2022-09-29T06:41:55.886732 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 36084 2025-06-25T12:11:40.918934 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16128 2024-10-18T11:36:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16038 2025-06-25T12:11:44.826922 application/rdf+xml 24609 2025-06-25T12:11:41.460948 image/jpeg 2851 2025-06-25T12:11:41.419889 image/jpeg 907337 2025-06-25T12:11:41.156975 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog