Agnes Grey - Couverture souple

Bronte, Anne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848376081 ISBN 13 : 9781848376083

Editeur : Arcturus, 2010

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A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Agnes Grey is the most perfect prose narrative of English letters... Simple and beautiful... The only story in English literature in which style, characters, and subject are in perfect keeping" (George Moore)

"For too long [Anne] has been undervalued as the third-best Bronte. But her fiction, exploring the lamentably still current themes of addiction and domestic violence and the abuse of vulnerable women working away from home, has a vigour and bracing satirical intelligence which places her in the first rank of what is arguably the greatest ever generation of novelists in English" (Lucy Hughes-Hallett)

"Brontë depicts in detail the isolation inherent in a governess's life, as an educated – but by necessity not too educated – woman trapped in an awkward halfway world between the classes" (Guardian)

Présentation de l'éditeur

'Patience, Firmness, and Perseverance were my only weapons.' Agnes Grey (1847) was Anne Bronte's first novel and a poignant account of her own experience as a struggling governess, obliged to earn her living in one of the few ways open to an educated Victorian girl. Agnes is not a romantic heroine such as those we find in the books of Anne's sisters Charlotte and Emily, but her story paints a more realistic picture of what happens when an intelligent, sensitive young woman has to endure months of isolation and frustration in an unsympathetic household that is not her home.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arcturus
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848376081
• ISBN 13: 9781848376083
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible