Anne Brontė's 1848 diary-novel is about a woman trying to free herself from a drunken husband and assert her independence in a male-dominated world. Anne Brontė is not as well known as her sisters Charlotte and Emily, but her attempts to grapple with real problems of real women were ahead of their time, and make her work both readable and timely.
Jane Eyre is one of the greats of English Literature and is widely-studied at GCSE, 'A' and undergraduate level as well as being an enduring favourite with the general reader. This edition offers five critical essays, each written from a differing, contemporary perspective, as well as useful introductions to the various critical approaches ...
Although The Brontes have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic. Charlotte (1816-1855) is certainly a competent poet, and Anne (1820-1849) developed a distinctive voice, while Emily (1818-1848) is one of great women poets in ...
Written when Charlotte was 23, "Stancliffe's Hotel" is an example of the author's early work written for the private entertainment of her brothers and sisters a decade before she found a public audience with "Jane Eyre".
Includes Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre", "Shirley", "The Professor" and "Villette", as well as Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights". Also included are commissioned introductions to the novels by Hilary Mantel, A. Norman Jeffares, Robert Barnard, Eileen Dunlop and Charlotte Cory.
First published in 1816, Jane Austen's EMMA is about an unconventional heroine--and one whom Austen thought no one but herself would like. Emma Woodhouse is bright, beautiful, and rich; she is also snobbish and judgmental, and she can be cruel, with a tendency to interfere in other people's lives. The novel chronicles Emma's attempts to make a ...
I've quench'd my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall-- The crash blent with my sleep, I saw depart Its light, even as I woke, on yonder wall; Over against my bed, there shone a gleam Strange, faint, and mingling also with my dream.
Primarily fiction writers, the Brontė sisters were also accomplished poets. This collection includes nearly 50 poems chosen to represent their best work. Interesting in themselves, the poems also provide an illuminating adjunct to the fiction.
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