The Tenant of Wildfell Hall from Anne Brontë

Category: Bücher
Pages / Format: 576 S
Edit year: 2016
Publishing House: Penguin Books UKPenguin Classics
Language: Englisch
ISBN: 9780241198957

A beautiful clothbound edition of Anne Brontë's most enduring novel, to accompany her sisters'greatest books in Penguin Hardcover Classics<br><br>Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced. Anne Brontë's bold novel is an exploration of a woman's struggle for creative freedom and domestic independence that caused a scandal upon publication and continues to speak powerfully almost 170 years afters its publication.<br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. 

3GBAnne Brontë(1820 1849) was the youngest of the Brontë family. She was educated at home in the Yorkshire village of Howarth, and later held two positions as a governess, difficult experiences that inspired her first novel,Agnes Grey, in 1847. This was followed byThe Tenant of Wildfell Hallin 1848. Anne died of tuberculosis in 1849, aged twenty-nine.<br><br>Stevie Davies(Introduction and Notes), who comes from Morriston, Swansea, is a novelist, literary critic, biographer, and historian. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the Academi Gymreig, and a professor of creative writing at the University of Wales, Swansea.

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