Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Bronte, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140432108 ISBN 13: 9780140432107

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income and assert her independence. But Agnes's enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfield children and then with the painful disdain of the haughty Murray family; the only kindness she receives comes from Mr Weston, the sober young curate. Drawing on her own experience, Anne Bronte's first novel offers a compelling personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women for whom becoming a governess was the only respectable career open in Victorian society.

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Críticas:

"The one story in English literature in which style, characters and subject are in perfect keeping." --George Moore

Contraportada:

Agnes Grey is undoubtedtedly a deeply personal novel, in which Anne Bronte views on the 'contemporary' issue of the treatment of governesses, as well as her passionate religious sympathies, find very deliberate expression; but she also touches on issues of moral behaviour, moral responsibility, and individual integrity and its survival.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0140432108
• ISBN 13: 9780140432107
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
• Herausgeber: Goreau Angeline