The Bronte Sisters: Jane Eyre; Villette; the Professor; Wuthering Heights; Agnes Grey; the Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte

'Villette' is based on Charlotte Brontë's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. It is a moving tale of repressed feelings and cruel circumstances borne with heroic fortitude. Rising above the confinement of a rigid social order, it is also a story of a woman's right to love and be loved. 'Wuthering Heights' is Emily Brontë's tale of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr. Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and, wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, he leaves Wuthering heights. When he returns years later as a wealthy man, he proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. 'Agnes Grey', Ann Brontë's deeply personal novel, is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' shows Ann Brontë's bold, naturalistic and passionate style. It is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious 'tenant' of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband. This 2005 Wordsworth Editions Ltd Paperback is brand new. Heavy.

ISBN: 9781840220605 SKU: 1554431 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

Location: Penguin