Name: Agnes Grey (Classics)
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Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Bronte, Anne ; Goreau, Angeline
ISBN: 9780140432107

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Physical Book

Author

Anne Brontë

Illustrated by

Angeline Goreau

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Year

1988

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0140432108

ISBN13

9780140432107

Edition No.

Synopsis "Agnes Grey (Classics) "

‘The name of governess, I soon found, was a mere mockery … my pupils had no more notion of obedience than a wild, unbroken colt’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 Brontë’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.This edition also includes Charlotte Brontë’s memoir of her sisters, theBiographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell. Angeline Goreau examines Anne Brontë’s complex relationship with her sisters and her unhappy career as a governess as influences in writing Agnes Grey.

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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Vicky Oyarzun Alarcon Monday, December 23, 2024
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Definitivamente no estaba nuevo, era uno usado sin embargo estaba en buenas condiciones, la portada tampoco era la misma que se muestra. Por otra parte, lo que me importaba era el contenido, eso perfecto.
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Llego en excelentes condiciones y rápido.
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