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  • Agnes Grey

    de Anne Bronte ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Concerned for her family’s financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable employment for an unmarried woman in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, Agnes cannot anticipate the hardship, humiliation, and loneliness that await her in the brutish Bloomfield and haughty Murray households. Drawn from Anne Brontë’s own ... Leer más

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  • New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Bronte

    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    This new essay collection brings together some of the top Brontë scholars working today, as well as new critical voices, to examine the many layers of Anne Brontë's fiction and other writings and to restore Brontë to her rightful place in literary history. Until very recently, Brontë's literary fate has been to live in the critical shadow of her older sisters, Charlotte and Emily, in spite of ... Leer más

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  • Progress & Identity in the Plays of W.B. Yeats, 1892-1907

    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    Progress and Identity in the Poems of W. B. Yeats explores the ways in which Yeats's plays offer an alternative form of progress via a philosophical system of opposites: Always seeking the opposite, the nature of which changes as we change, we continually augment our personalities, and ultimately improve society, with the inclusion of the Other. This system, which eventually became Yeats's ... Leer más

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  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    de Anne Brontë ...
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    Series series Oxford World's Classics
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  • AGNES GREY

    de Anne Bronte ...
    Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë, first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works in several bourgeois families. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontësuggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister ... Leer más

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  • Agnes Grey

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Drawing directly on her own unhappy experiences, Anne Brontë's first-person narrative describes the almost unbelievable pressures endured by nineteenth-century governesses - the isolation, the frustration, and the insensitive and sometimes cruel treatment meted out by employers and their families. Distinguished by its sharp, often ironic observation of middle-class social behaviour, this deeply ... Leer más

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    de Octavio Paz ...
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  • The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Complete)

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  • Penny Dreadful Presents ...

    The Turn of the Screw and Agnes Grey: A Penny Dreadful Double-Bill

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