The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Bronte, Anne

ISBN 10: 0786159545 ISBN 13: 9780786159543

Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB, 2007

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Reseña del editor:

Like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, Anne Bronte published under a male pseudonym, yet still this novel was scorned by many for its exposure of the abusive male chauvinism that was concealed, like all things sexual, during the Victorian Era. Just as Anne had to use a male pseudonym in order to publish, Helen Graham, the novel's protagonist and a battered wife, must assume an alias in order to gain freedom from her suffering. With her young child, Helen takes up residence at Wildfell Hall, shrouding her past in secrecy yet earning the attentions of a young unmarried country gentleman. Anne Bronte employs the atmosphere of the bleak Yorkshire moors and the cold, rugged gloom of the fictional mansion to set the stage for a tragedy that reveals the secret violence in a society considered well-mannered. With a powerful plot that reveals the troubles of the times, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is now lauded as a classic of Victorian literature.

Biografía del autor:

Anne Bronte was born in Yorkshire in 1820. The Bronte children were raised in an isolated parsonage, where they thrived in fantasy worlds that drew on their voracious reading of Byron, Scott, Shakespeare, and Gothic fiction. Anne's first novel, Agnes Grey, was published together with her sister Emily's Wuthering Heights in 1847. She died of tuberculosis in 1849, shortly after Emily and their brother Branwell died of the same illness.

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• Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0786159545
• ISBN 13: 9780786159543
• Einband: CD MP3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1