The Brontë sisters : the brief lives of Charlotte, Emily and Anne
Catherine Reef
Bok · Engelsk · 2012
| Utgitt | Boston : Clarion Books , 2012
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| Omfang | 231 s. : ill
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| Opplysninger | "Oh god, my poor children!" -- "Bend inclination to duty" -- "What on earth is half so dear?" -- "Who ever rose...without ambition?" -- "A peculiar music" -- "It is soul speaking to soul" -- "Moorish, and wild, and knotty as a root of heath" -- A dreadful darkness closes in" -- "Out of obscurity I came" -- "I should fancy I heard the steps of the dead".. - The Brontë sisters are among the most beloved writers of all time, best known for their classic nineteenth-century novels Jane Eyre (Charlotte), Wuthering Heights (Emily), and Agnes Grey (Anne). In this sometimes heartbreaking young adult biography, Catherine Reef explores the turbulent lives of these literary siblings and the oppressive times in which they lived
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