Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of , Shirley is the story of two contrasting heroines.
The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her for the time neither quarrelling nor crying looked perfectly happy. A literary classic, the epic love story between Jane and Mr.
Rochester continues to resonate and inspire readers more than a century after its original publication. I will definitely recommend this book to classics, fiction lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Read Online Download. Great book, Agnes Grey pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone.
Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. They originally published their poems and novels under masculine pseudonyms, following the custom of the times practised by female writers. Their stories immediately attracted attention, although not always the best, for their passion and originality. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature.
The three sisters and their brother, Branwell, were very close and they developed their childhood imaginations through the collaborative writing of increasingly complex stories. The confrontation with the deaths first of their mother then of their two older sisters marked them profoundly and influenced their writing. Their fame was due as much to their own tragic destinies as to their precociousness.
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