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  • Agnes Grey

    by 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 ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Brontë

    by Barbara A. Suess ...
    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 ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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

    by Barbara A. Suess ...
    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 ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Jane Eyre

    by Charlotte Brontë ...
    'The masterwork of a great genius' William Makepeace ThackerayA novel of intense emotional power, heightened atmosphere and fierce intelligence, Jane Eyre dazzled and shocked readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom on her own terms. Its heroine Jane endures loneliness and cruelty in the home of her heartless aunt and the cold charity of Lowood School. Her ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

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  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    by Anne Brontë ...
    One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The groundbreaking story of a woman's valiant struggle for independence from her abusive husbandGilbert 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 ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • Jane Eyre

    by Charlotte Brontë ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess. The monotony of Jane's new ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • AGNES GREY

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Agnes Grey

    by Anne Brontë, Robert Inglesfield ...
    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 ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • On Poets and Others

    Translated by Michael Schmidt ...
    by Octavio Paz ...
    The Nobel Prizewinning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Pickwick Papers (Annotated Edition)

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Series series Alma Classics Evergreen
    A rich and varied array of stories and vignettes, The Pickwick Papers is based around the investigations of the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club, consisting of its founder Mr Samuel Pickwick and Messrs Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, who travel around the country and then report back to the club concerning their extraordinary adventures and experiences.Dickens’s ... Read more

    $2.35 USD

  • Distant Reading

    by Franco Moretti ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDHow does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Penny Dreadful Presents ...

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

    by Henry James, Anne Brontë ...
    Series series Penny Dreadful Presents
    Fans of the new Showtime series ‘Penny Dreadful’ are in for a treat with this Penny Dreadful Double Bill!A ‘grim governess’ two-pack from either side of the Victorian Atlantic ...‘The Turn of the Screw’ by Henry James“The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should ... Read more

    $1.99 USD