The Brontë Sisters (Boxed Set) von Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Villette

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 2288 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Verlag: Penguin Books UKPenguin Classics
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780241248768

Jane Eyre | Wuthering Heights | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Villette<br><br>This stunning box set brings together the Brontë sisters'four greatest novels in beautiful Penguin editions designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.<br><br><br>From the bleak moors ofWuthering Heightsto the Belgian capital inVillette, and the mysterious, gloomy country estates ofJane EyreandThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall, these four novels of passion and struggle show the most famous siblings in literature at the peak of their powers.

3GBCharlotte Brontë was born in Yorkshire in 1816. As a child, she was sent to boarding school, where two of her sisters died; she was subsequently educated at home with her younger siblings, Emily, Branwell and Anne. As an adult, Charlotte worked as a governess and taught in a school in Brussels.Jane Eyrewas first published in 1847 under the pen-name Currer Bell, and was followed byShirley(1848),Villette(1853) andThe Professor(posthumously published in 1857). In 1854 Charlotte married her father's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died in March of the following year.

Emily Brontë (1818-48). Best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, and a collection of surviving poems, she remains one of the most intensely original and passionate voices in English literature.

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