Name: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Including Introductory Essays by Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Brontë and Clement K. Shorter (in English)
Price: 21.88 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Brontë, Anne
ISBN: 9781528703826

portada The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Including Introductory Essays by Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Brontë and Clement K. Shorter (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Anne Brontë

Publisher

Read & Co. Classics

Language

English

Pages

546

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 3.1 cm

Weight

0.68 kg.

ISBN13

9781528703826

Synopsis "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Including Introductory Essays by Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Brontë and Clement K. Shorter (in English)"

"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" a novel by English author Anne Brontë. Her second and last novel, it is presented in the form of a series of letters from one Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about how he met his wife. An enigmatic young widow arrives at the uninhabited Elizabethan mansion called Wildfell Hall. After taking up residence there in a hermit-like manner, she becomes the victim of terrible slander. She is befriended by a local man who is sceptical of the local and who gradually comes to learn of her tragic past. Among the most disturbing and shocking of the novels published by the Brontës family, it enjoyed incredible success--despite her sister Charlotte's preventing its re-publication after her death. "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" constitutes a must-read for lovers of classic English literature and it is not to be missed by those who have read and enjoyed other works by the Brontë sisters. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Anne Brontë

(Author)

View Author's Page

Anne Brönte era la más joven de las hermanas Brontë. Al igual que sus hermanas Emily y Charlotte, ha pasado a la historia de la literatura a pesar de su corta vida y con solo dos novelas escritas, que publicó bajo el seudónimo de Acton Bell. Siendo una adolescente, junto a su hermana Emily, creó el imaginario reino de Gondal, acerca del cual ambas escribieron cuentos y poemas. A los 19 años entró a trabajar de institutriz, pero enseguida se sintió frustrada al no poder educar bien a una infancia que le pareció ingobernable y consentida. Esta experiencia le sirvió para moldear su primera novela, _Agnes Grey._ La buena acogida de esta obra, permitió al año siguiente la aparición de la segunda y última, _La inquilina de Wildfell Hall._ En ella, se narraba la llegada de una mujer, aparentemente viuda, y de su hijo de corta edad a una antigua mansión, hecho que desatará todo tipo de reacciones en la vecindad. Esta novela fue tachada de inmoral por sus contemporáneos debido a la dureza de ciertos pasajes. Anne murió de tuberculosis.

See less