Name: Agnes Grey
SKU: 61182409
Price: 755.00 TWD
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Author: Bronte, Anne
ISBN: 9781539618102

Type

Physical Book

Author

Anne Brontë

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

254

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.3 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9781539618102

Synopsis "Agnes Grey"

The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a pastor whose family falls into poverty. Desperate to earn money for their own maintenance, take one of the few jobs available for respectable ladies of the Victorian era -the governess to the children of upper-class families. When working with two different families (Bloomfield and Murray) is aware of the problems facing a young woman who must try to take the reins of spoiled and undisciplined children just to live from their work. It is also aware of the ability of wealth and status to destroy social values. After the death of his father, Agnes opens a small school with her mother and finds happiness with a man who loves her as it is.

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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