Name: Agnes Grey (Collins Classics)
SKU: 18768588
Price: 292.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Anne Brontë
ISBN: 9780007449453

Type

Physical Book

Author

Anne Brontë

Publisher

HarperCollins

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0007449453

ISBN13

9780007449453

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Agnes Grey (Collins Classics)

Anne Brontë (Author) · HarperCollins · Paperback

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Synopsis "Agnes Grey (Collins Classics) "

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best loved essential classics. It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated and the heart well disposed no one ever cares for the exterior. Anne Bronte s debut novel tells the story of Agnes Grey a young woman who is determined to seek work as a governess after her family becomes impoverished. Drawing upon her own experiences as a governess Anne describes the isolation insensitivity and occasional harsh treatment bestowed on women in her position by their employers and through Agnes demonstrates the resilience integrity and survival of one woman in the face of upper class snobbery and changing social values.

Anne Brontë

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Anne Brönte was the youngest of the Brontë sisters. Like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, she has gone down in literary history despite her short life and with only two novels written, which she published under the pseudonym Acton Bell. As a teenager, along with her sister Emily, she created the imaginary kingdom of Gondal, about which they both wrote stories and poems. At 19, she started working as a governess, but soon felt frustrated by her inability to properly educate what she saw as an unruly and spoiled youth. This experience helped shape her first novel, "Agnes Grey". The warm reception of this work allowed the appearance of her second and last novel, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", the following year. It tells the story of the arrival of a woman, seemingly a widow, and her young son to an old mansion, an event that triggers all kinds of reactions in the neighborhood. This novel was deemed immoral by her contemporaries due to the harshness of certain passages. Finally, Anne died of tuberculosis at the young age of 29.

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