Anne Brontëová se ve svém díle odklonila od romantismu svých sester a místo toho se soustředila na realistické zobrazení světa s ostrovtipem a ironií. Její romány, inspirované osobními zkušenostmi a zkoumající postavení žen a společenské problémy, vynikají upřímností a psychologickou hloubkou. Díky svému jedinečnému stylu a odvážnému přístupu k tématu si zaslouží uznání jako významná autorka anglické literatury.
Román nás zavede do zpustlého zámku, kam se přistěhuje mladá krásná žena s malým synkem. Tato cizinka je pro okolí velkou záhadou, protože se úzkostlivě vyhýbá sousedům. Okolí netuší, zda je vdaná, a proto je velmi pohoršeno, když tuto ženu začne navštěvovat svobodný muž z blízkého panství.
Agnes vyrostla v rodině chudého duchovního. Sotva překročila práh dospělosti, rozhodla se postavit na vlastní nohy a přijala práci guvernantky. Po první špatné zkušenosti, kdy se neúspěšně snažila vzdělávat rozmazlené děti ze zbohatlické rodiny, zakotví na panství Murrayových, aby se starala o výchovu dvou dospívajících dívek — Rosalie a Matildy. Agnes se seznamuje se životním stylem venkovské smetánky a na každém kroku při tom naráží na pokrytectví, hloupost a sobectví. V rádobynablýskaném světě, kam nepatří, však přece jen najde jednu nezkaženou duši — mladého vikáře, do kterého se zamiluje. Jenže s mužem jejího srdce začíná koketovat krásná, ale pyšná a zlá Rosalie...
Includes the novels Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
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Anne Brontë (1820-1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. She lived most of her life with her family at the remote village of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. For a couple of years she went to a boarding school. At the age of nineteen, she left Haworth working as a governess between 1839 and 1845. After leaving her teaching position, she fulfilled her literary ambitions. She wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters (Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, 1846) and in short succession she wrote two novels: Agnes Grey, based upon her experiences as a governess, was published in 1847; her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall appeared in 1848. Anne's creative life was cut short with her death of pulmonary tuberculosis when she was only twentynine years old. She wrote in a realistic, rather than a romantic style. Her novels have become classics of English literature.
Includes the novels Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
In this special collectible edition, we explore themes of love, struggle, and survival, and coming of age through the eyes of one of literature's most famous families of the 1800s.
The literary masterpieces of the three Brontë sisters in one volume: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. This handsome leather-bound edition includes the most acclaimed novels of each of the Brontë sisters: Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, Emily’s Wuthering Heights, and Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Originally published under male pseudonyms in the 1840s, these three novels later helped give rise to the feminist literary movement of the late nineteenth century, in which women’s perspectives became more accepted by the mainstream reading public. A scholarly introduction provides an overview of the sisters’ childhood in northern England, their literary influences, and their enduring legacy.
Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen Graham, a mysterious single woman who rents the semi-ruinous Hall of the title.