Anne Bronte

R sum Agn s Grey Le roman raconte l'histoire d'Agn s Grey, fille du pasteur d'un village du nord de l'Angleterre. Ses parents ayant subi un revers de fortune, Agn s d cide de les aider financi rement en occupant l'un des rares emplois permis aux femmes respectables au d but de l' re victorienne: elle devient gouvernante d'enfants de riche. Elle travaille dans deux familles, les Bloomfield et les Murray, et doit bient t faire face l'indiscipline des enfants g t s. Elle s'aper oit aussi que, dans cette riche bourgeoisie terrienne, l'argent et le statut d truisent les valeurs sociales et morales. Agnes Grey est le premier des deux romans d'Anne Bront . Publi en d cembre 1847 sous le pseudonyme d'Acton Bell, le roman est fond sur la propre exp rience d'Anne comme gouvernante, et pr sente certains rapports stylistiques avec les oeuvres de Jane Austen, plus importants que dans les textes suivants. Comme Jane Eyre, de sa soeur Charlotte (publi en octobre 1847), le livre d crit la position pr caire des gouvernantes et la fa on dont les jeunes femmes exer ant cette profession en sont affect es. Toutes les histoires vraies portent avec elles une instruction, bien que dans quelques-unes le tr sor soit difficile trouver, et si mince en quantit , que le noyau sec et rid ne vaut souvent pas la peine que l'on a eue de casser la noix. Qu'il en soit ainsi ou non de mon histoire, c'est ce dont je ne puis juger avec comp tence. Je pense pourtant qu'elle peut tre utile quelques-uns, et int ressante pour d'autres; mais le public jugera par lui-m me. Prot g e par ma propre obscurit , par le laps des ans et par des noms suppos s, je ne crains point d'entreprendre ce r cit, et de livrer au public ce que je ne d couvrirais pas au plus intime ami. Mon p re, membre du clerg dans le nord de l'Angleterre, tait justement respect par tous ceux qui le connaissaient. Dans sa jeunesse, il vivait assez confortablement avec les revenus d'un petit b n fice et d'une propri t lui. Ma m re, qui l' pousa contre la volont de ses amis, tait la fille d'un squire et une femme de coeur. En vain on lui repr senta que, si elle devenait la femme d'un pauvre ministre, il lui faudrait renoncer sa voiture, sa femme de chambre, au luxe et l' l gance de la richesse, toutes choses qui pour elle n' taient gu re moins que les n cessit s de la vie. Elle r pondit qu'une voiture et une femme de chambre taient, la v rit , fort commodes; mais que, gr ce au ciel, elle avait des pieds pour la porter et des mains pour se servir. Une l gante maison et un spacieux domaine n' taient point, selon elle, m priser; mais elle e t mieux aim vivre dans une chaumi re avec Richard Grey, que dans un palais avec tout autre.

In an effort to save her family from poverty, a young woman takes employment as a governess and discovers the great difficulties, instability, and even abuse that accompany her new position in Victorian society. Based on Bront 's own experiences as a governess, Agnes Grey is a poignant tale that explores the repression of women as well as the coming of age of a young and memorable heroine. Deeply personal and socially critical, Agnes Grey has been described by the Irish novelist George Moore as "the most perfect prose narrative in the English language."

The Classics Exposed... The tenant of Wildfell Hall has a secret one man desires her to share... Into the quiet village of Lindenhope comes Helen Graham, an attractive young widow and mother. Living alone with her son at Wildfell Hall, her seclusion attracts curiosity from the local people, in particular Gilbert Markham, whose interest in her is soon edged with desire-and Helen, despite herself, begins to reciprocate his love for her. But when scandalous rumours begin to circulate about Helen's behaviour, Gilbert is filled with anger and jealousy. Helen attempts to clear her name by offering Gilbert her diary, which reveals the dark, passionate story of her former marriage to debauched rake Arthur Huntingdon, whose sexual and sensual desires fill her with excitement and pleasure but precipitate a gradual descent into hell. Gilbert believes he could forgive her anything, but the lies continue to spread, threatening Helen's peace of mind and, above all, her physical safety. Will the secrets of Helen's past get in the way of their future?

The tragic lives of the Brontë sisters hold a romantic fascination as great as that of the stories into which they poured their rich imaginations and experiences. Following their first appearance in 1847 and the deaths of Emily (1818–48) and Anne (1820–49), these two classics of English literature - one an impassioned tale of doomed love, the other a quietly intense portrait of the governess in Victorian society - were published together with poems and a biographical notice in this revised 1851 edition. It was prepared by the authors' sister and fellow novelist, Charlotte (1816–55). Wuthering Heights was Emily's only novel, and although it received mixed reviews upon first publication because of its stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty, it has since become an icon of its genre. Agnes Grey, Anne's debut novel, astutely shows the governess to be an often invisible and abused member of the household.

Shirley et Agnes Grey. Tome 1 / par Currer Bell C. Bronte] et A. Bronte]; romans anglais traduits par MM. Ch. Romey et A. RoletDate de l'edition originale: 1859"Collection: Bibliotheque des meilleurs romans etrangers"Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF. Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique. En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles. Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel by English author Anne Bront , published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Bront s' novels, this novel had an instant phenomenal success but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication. The novel is framed as a letter from Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about the events leading to his meeting his wife. Anne Bront (17 January 1820 - 28 May 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bront literary family.

Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Bront , 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 families. Anne's sister Charlotte Bront suggested the novel was largely based on Anne Bront 's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman. Anne Bront (17 January 1820 - 28 May 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bront literary family.

The tragic lives of the Brontë sisters hold a romantic fascination as great as that of the stories into which they poured their rich imaginations and experiences. Following their first appearance in 1847 and the deaths of Emily (1818–48) and Anne (1820–49), these two classics of English literature - one an impassioned tale of doomed love, the other a quietly intense portrait of the governess in Victorian society - were published together with poems and a biographical notice in this revised 1851 edition. It was prepared by the authors' sister and fellow novelist, Charlotte (1816–55). Wuthering Heights was Emily's only novel, and although it received mixed reviews upon first publication because of its stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty, it has since become an icon of its genre. Agnes Grey, Anne's debut novel, astutely shows the governess to be an often invisible and abused member of the household.

Perhaps the main reason Anne Bront 's masterpiece is not as well known as her sisters' is that Charlotte suppressed any new editions after Anne's death, as the novel was deemed extremely shocking for its time. This is very unfortunate, as The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is much better than Anne's previous book, Agnes Grey, better even than Emily's Wuthering Heights, and nearly as good as Charlotte's Jane Eyre. Like Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall considers the roles of reason and passion in life and concludes that both are necessary to achieve happiness. The real topic of Wildfell Hall is how to judge other people's characters, particularly in matters of love. This theme is brilliantly dramatized through a story about a woman who makes a youthful, but profound, error in whom she chooses to marry, and as her husband's vicious nature becomes increasingly clear, struggles to leave him---and how she herself is unfairly judged by her new neighbors when she manages to do so. Many people sharply contrast the romanticism of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre with the realism of Wildfell Hall, but this is a mistake---and, despite its more frank depictions of some of the social problems of its time (including alcoholism and domestic abuse), Anne rejected this dichotomy in the novel itself. Like Jane Eyre (and to a lesser extent Wuthering Heights), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is an intellectual and emotional tour de force, and one of the greatest classics in all of world literature.

Agnes Grey es una novela escrita y publicada en 1847 por la autora inglesa Anne Bronte. La novela trata acerca de una institutriz del mismo nombre, y est basada en las propias experiencias de Bronte en la materia. Fue, asimismo, la primera novela de la autora. De forma similar a la novela de su hermana, Jane Eyre, esta es una novela que se ala la posici n precaria que afrontaba una institutriz y c mo afectaba a una joven mujer. El novelista irland s George Moore elogi Agnes Grey como la "narrativa en prosa m s perfecta de las obras literarias inglesas".

The Bront s sisters, Charlotte (1816-55), Emily (1818-48), and Anne (1820-49), achieved literary renown for their novels which were passionate and original. Contained in this volume are the famous (or complete) novels - Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Jane Eyre.

A mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a 'wicked woman' as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a brutal alcoholic bully, desperate to protect her son.

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.’ When Helen flees from her alcoholic husband in order to protect her son she defies societal convention. Earning a living as an artist, she becomes the mysterious tenant of Wildfell Hall as she hides herself away and uses her art to support her child. However, the beautiful and reclusive young woman soon begins to stir up malicious gossip and speculation. Captivated and drawn to Helen, Gilbert Markham becomes suspicious when he begins to hear these stories, however it is only when he reads Helen’s diary that he learns the full cruelty that her husband subjected her to in her previous life. Rejecting the societal norms surrounding marriage in Victorian Society, Anne Brontë’s novel, said to be based on the experiences of her own brother Branwell, shocked her readers at the time and still remains a scandalous read today.

The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written by the youngest of the famous Bront sisters. Anne Bront wrote these two fantastically successful novels just before her tragically early death, both of them in a much more grittily realistic mode than the more romantic ones favored by her sisters. Agnes Grey, the story of a governess working for disdainful and cruel employers, is a wrenching account of the desperate straits faced by Victorian women without money or husband. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall tells a story that was shocking for its time: a woman leaves her alcoholic and abusive husband in order to protect their young son and must live in hiding to prevent the law from taking her child away from her. These novels have become classics not only by dint of the subtle and ironic force of Anne Bront 's prose but because of the passionate indictments of social injustice that animate them.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is Anne Bronte's second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen Graham, a mysterious single woman who rents the semi-ruinous Hall of the title. With a child but no husband, Helen divides the community between those who admire her charm and spirit and those who suspect her morals. Chief among her supporters is a local farmer, Gilbert Markham, who tells her story. Written before The Tenant, Agnes Grey, based on the author's own experience, explores the position of women in Victorian society through the story of a young woman forced to work as a governess when her father is ruined financially.