Agnes Grey ; The tenant of Wildfell Hall / Anne Brontë ; with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett.

Author
Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849 [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Εdition
New ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Knopf, 2012.
Description
xxix, 710 pages ; 21 cm.

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    "The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written by the youngest of the famous Brontë sisters. Anne Brontë wrote these two fantastically successful novels just before her tragically early death, both of them in a much more grittily realistic mode than the more romantic ones favored by her sisters. Agnes Grey, the story of a governess working for disdainful and cruel employers, is a wrenching account of the desperate straits faced by Victorian women without money or husband. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall tells a story that was shocking for its time: a woman leaves her alcoholic and abusive husband in order to protect their young son and must live in hiding to prevent the law from taking her child away from her. These novels have become classics not only by dint of the subtle and ironic force of Anne Brontë's prose but because of the passionate indictments of social injustice that animate them."--Publisher's website.
    Notes
    "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi).
    Contents
    • Agnes Grey
    • Tenant Of Wildfell Hall.
    Other title(s)
    Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
    ISBN
    • 9780307957801 ((US))
    • 0307957802 ((US))
    • 9781841593432 ((UK))
    • 1841593435 ((UK))
    LCCN
    2011277491
    OCLC
    745979724
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