Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë, first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works in several bourgeois families. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five...
London: Delphi Books, 2015. — 2399 p. A collection of all the writings of the Bronte sisters (Charlotte , Emily and Anne ) and their father Patrick and brother Branwell plus photos and background information. They are classics of English Literature.
Publication details not specified. This text was published in Leipzig in 1850. Publishing house: Bernhard Tauchnitz Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to...
Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she hopes she has found both at once....
Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character. The novel goes through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where...
Publication details not specified. (in English) JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte; a world-known novel about the love story of a poor girl and a noble aristocrat.
Penguin Popular Classics, 1994. — 450 p. Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr...
Penguin Popular Classics, 1994. — 450 p. Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr...
A novel first published in 1857. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth, and is a first-person narrative from his perspective. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a professor at an all-girls school. The story starts off with a letter William has sent to his friend Charles, detailing his refusal to his uncle's proposals to become a...
This little book was written before either "Jane Eyre" or "Shirley, " and yet no indulgence can be solicited for it on the plea of a first attempt. A first attempt it certainly was not, as the pen which wrote it had been previously worn a good deal in a practice of some years. I had not indeed published anything before I commenced "The Professor, " but in many a crude effort,...
415 p. Villette is a novel by Charlotte Brontë, published in 1853. Villette begins with its famously passive and secretive protagonist, Lucy Snowe, age 14, observing her godmother, Mrs. Bretton, Mrs. Bretton's son, Graham, and a young visitor, Paulina Home, known to everyone as "Polly." The child is a peculiar little thing and soon develops a deep devotion for the older Graham,...
One of the most passionate and heartfelt novels ever written, "Wuthering Heights" tells of the relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, the orphan boy her father adopted and brought to "Wuthering Heights" when they were children. While Catherine forms a deep attachment to Heathcliff, her brother Hindley despises him as a rival. Heathcliff becomes torn between...
1801. —I have just returned from a visit to my landlord — the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society.
One of the most passionate and heartfelt novels ever written, "Wuthering Heights" tells of the relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, the orphan boy her father adopted and brought to "Wuthering Heights" when they were children. While Catherine forms a deep attachment to Heathcliff, her brother Hindley despises him as a rival. Heathcliff becomes torn between...
One of the most passionate and heartfelt novels ever written, "Wuthering Heights" tells of the relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, the orphan boy her father adopted and brought to "Wuthering Heights" when they were children. While Catherine forms a deep attachment to Heathcliff, her brother Hindley despises him as a rival. Heathcliff becomes torn between...
Delphi Classic. 2012 The Brontës were a nineteenth-century literary family associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male...
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