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Agnes Grey, the Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780307957801)
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xThe only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written by the youngest of the famous Bront? sisters, with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallet.
Anne Bront? 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 Bront?'s prose but because of the passionate indictments of social injustice that animate them. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman's Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
Author: Anne Bronte
ISBN-10: 0307957802
ISBN-13: 9780307957801
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2012
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.68lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.22w x 1.57d
Anne Bront? 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 Bront?'s prose but because of the passionate indictments of social injustice that animate them. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman's Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
Author: Anne Bronte
ISBN-10: 0307957802
ISBN-13: 9780307957801
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2012
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.68lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.22w x 1.57d
By Anne Bronte
xANNE BRONT? (1820-1849) was the youngest sister of Charlotte and Emily Bront?. After working as a governess, she wrote Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and a book of poetry with her sisters before dying of tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT is an award-winning cultural historian and critic. She is the author of biographies of Cleopatra and Gabriele d'Annunzio and of Heroes: A History of Hero Worship. Former television critic for the Evening Standard, she has long been a regular contributor to the books section of The Sunday Times (London). She has judged a number of literary prizes and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.
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