Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre is a wildly emotional romance with a lonely heroine and a tormented Byronic hero, pathetic orphans, dark secrets, and a madwoman in the attic. When it was published in 1847, it was a great popular success. The power of the writing, the masterly handling of the narrative, and the boldly realistic style were much admired. But many found it difficult to believe that Currer Bell, the pseudonymous author, was Charlotte Brontë , a young woman from a bleak Yorkshire parsonage.

With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette. The first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey - a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature.

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte. With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's expectations. The novel is set in a period of social and political ferment, featuring class disenfranchisement, the drama of Luddite machine-breaking, and the divisive effects of the Napoleonic Wars. But Charlotte Brontës particular strength lies in exploring the hidden psychological drama of love, loss and the quest for identity. Personal and public agitation are brought together against the dramatic backdrop of her native Yorkshire. As always, Brontë challenges convention, exploring the limitations of social justice whilst telling not one but two love stories.

The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was written before Jane Eyre, but was rejected by many publishing houses. It was eventually published, posthumously, in 1857, with the approval of Charlotte Brontë's widower, Arthur Bell Nicholls, who took on the task of reviewing and editing the text.

This volume contains the complete novels of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Shirley.

Un père taciturne et fantasque, une mère évanescente et rêveuse, tôt disparue, une race imaginative, véhémente et passionnée : tels furent les dons du Destin pour les trois sœurs qui allaient devenir, comme le dit Virginia Woolf, « les femmes les plus attirantes du roman anglais ». Elles étaient également douées pour tous les arts. Elles aspiraient ensemble, dès l'enfance, à donner une forme à leurs songes. Elles vécurent unies jusqu'à la mort, concentrées sur elles-mêmes comme un groupe d'exilés, dans un presbytère de campagne perdu sur la lande du Yorkshire. Si, des trois sœurs Brontë, c'est Emily qui possède au plus haut point l'art de donner la vie aux mots, l'identité de leur triple génie se révèle par cette violence à voix douce qui est le ton même de la tragédie. Comme les Parques ou les Charites, les Brontë sont indissociables. C'est ainsi qu'il faut les découvrir ou les relire. D'où la justification de ce volume.

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In 1834, Charlotte Bronte, together with her brother Branwell, created the imaginary kingdom of Angria, about which she was to write prolifically for the next five years. The five “novelettes” in this volume are the last of her Angrian tales. Written from the viewpoint of the cynical, gossipy Charles Townshend, they offer an ironic portrait of the intrigues, scandals, and passions of an aristocratic beau monde. With their varied cast of characters, the stories provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind and creative processes of the young writer who was to become one of the world’s greatest novelists.

¿Qué hace que las historias victorianas de fantasmas sean tan perfectas para leer al calor de una chimenea en una noche oscura y tempestuosa?Porque si hay algo que caracteriza a los victorianos es su maestría a la hora de contar cuentos de fantasmas: mansiones abandonadas, viajes en coches de caballos por páramos desolados, castillos en peligrosos acantilados, bellas mujeres sepulcrales, oscuras historias familiares en las que los antepasados no acaban de irse del todo... Un campo en el que muchas eminentes damas novelistas, especialistas en lo escalofriante, marcaron tendencia. Las veintiuna historias incluidas en este volumen abarcan el reinado de la reina Victoria y cuentan con aportaciones de autoras clásicas como Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant o Willa Carther, junto con otras no tan conocidas pero no por ello menos especialistas en lo tenebroso y lo sobrenatural. Ambientados en las montañas de Irlanda, en una villa mediterránea o en una tétrica mansión de Londres, estos relatos evidencian la fascinación victoriana por la muerte y por lo que había más allá, con atmósferas sugerentes, ingenio y mucho, mucho humor.

داستان درباره زندگی جین، دختری است که در کودکی مادر و پدر خود را از دست می‌دهد. او پس از ناملایماتی که از بستگان نزدیکش می‌بیند، به پرورشگاه سپرده می شود و در محیط خشک و خشن پرورشگاه بزرگ می‌شود. او سپس با سمت معلمی به خانه‌ای اشرافی می‌رود، ارباب خانه (آقای روچستر) به تدریج به او علاقه‌مند می‌شود، ولی جین می‌فهمد که …

Demonstrating the remarkable range of their powers, this volume of three works by the Brontë sisters offers readers the opportunity to witness their unique combination of realism and romance which places these novels among the greatest works of nineteenth century literature. Charlotte Brontë'sJane Eyre met immediate success when it was first published in 1847 and remains a much-loved classic. Considered by the public to be rough and strange when it was originally published, Emily Brontë's only novel Wuthering Heights has become one the most popular of all English novels. The Tenant ofWildfell Hall , Anne Brontë's second novel, was a dramatic and courageous challenge to the conventions supposedly upheld by Victorian society. It has since become a classic, compelling in its imaginative power, the realism and range of its dialogue, and its psychological insight into the charactersinvolved in a marital battle.

عزيزى القـارئ :كانت تفصل بين كل من الأطفال الستة والذى يليه نحو سنة واحدة فقط ، فلما ماتت الأم كانت ابنتها الكبرى ( ماريا ) فى سنة السابعة ، والصغرى ( آن ) فى عامها الأول ! وهكذا صارت ( ماريا ) وهى بعـد فى سـن السابعة ، بمثابة الأم للصغار الخمسة الآخرين !وبعد أربع سنوات ألحق الأب ابنتيه الكبيرتين ( ماريا ) و( إليزابيث ) فى رواية ( جين إير ) باسم ( لووود ) .

Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstein costumes, watched the film adaptations, and may even be able to rattle off a few quotes, but do you really know how to read these books? Do you know anything about the authors who wrote them, and what the authors were trying to teach readers through their stories? Do you know how to read them as a Christian? Taking into account your old worldview, as well as that of the author? In this beautiful cloth-over-board edition bestselling author, literature professor, and avid reader Karen Swallow Prior will guide you through Jane Eyre . She will not only navigate you through the pitfalls that trap readers today, but show you how to read it in light of the gospel, and to the glory of God. This edition includes a thorough introduction to the author, context, and overview of the work (without any spoilers for first-time readers), the full original text, as well as footnotes and reflection questions throughout to help the reader attain a fuller grasp of Jane Eyre . The full series currently Heart of Darkness, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre, and Frankenstein. Make sure to keep an eye out for the next classics in the series.

داستان درباره زندگی جین، دختری است که در کودکی مادر و پدر خود را از دست می‌دهد. او پس از ناملایماتی که از بستگان نزدیکش می‌بیند، به پرورشگاه سپرده می شود و در محیط خشک و خشن پرورشگاه بزرگ می‌شود. او سپس با سمت معلمی به خانه‌ای اشرافی می‌رود، ارباب خانه (آقای روچستر) به تدریج به او علاقه‌مند می‌شود، ولی جین می‌فهمد که …

In her fiction, Charlotte Bront

Written when Charlotte was 23, "Stancliffe's Hotel" is an example of the author's early work written for the private entertainment of her brothers and sisters a decade before she found a public audience with "Jane Eyre".

Written when she was 17, The Foundling is a classic fairy tale set in the imagined kingdom of Verdopolis which will delight fans of Charlotte Brontë’s later work. Abandoned as a baby, Edward Sydney finds a “protector” in Mr. Hasleden, a rich local landowner who declares an interest in the child and claims him as his own. The boy grows up believing Hasleden to be his father, but after his death, Edward discovers evidence of his real name and the circumstances of his birth. Full of curiosity about his true origins, he sets off on a journey to the mythical kingdom of Verdopolis. There, after several adventures, Edward meets and falls in love with the noble Lady Julia, only to find that she is betrothed to another. Charlotte Brontë is best remembered for her perennially popular novel, Jane Eyre.

A rollicking adventure from the Brontës’ imagined kingdom of Verdopolis, The Secret is a novel of intrigue, duplicity, and all-conquering love. Arthur, the Marquis of Douro, his beautiful wife, Marion, and their infant son lead a happy and carefree existence in the city of Verdopolis—until a chance encounter brings the youthful Marchioness’ childhood governess back into their lives. The meeting proves to be the catalyst for an increasingly tortuous series of events involving blackmail, imposture, and shocking revelations regarding the birth of the young Marchioness. Will the Marquis ever forgive his wife her secret? English novelist Charlotte Brontë is best remembered for her perennially popular novel, Jane Eyre.

Da una canonica persa nelle brughiere inglesi Charlotte Brontë combatte a suon di lettere una battaglia quieta e determinata per affermare le ragioni del proprio genio letterario e lo straordinario talento delle sue sorelle. I numerosi appassionati dell’autrice di Jane Eyre troveranno in questo epistolario l’apprendistato di un’intelligenza, le peripezie di un cuore capientissimo e il percorso di una vita di formidabile consapevolezza e segreta intensità.

Witty and engrossing, this early work displays the precocious intelligence, lively imagination, and flair for storytelling that Charlotte Brontë brought to perfection in her later fiction. Lady Emily Charlesworth is in love with Leslie, a struggling artist. Lord Percy, a fierce, arrogant aristocrat, will do anything to lay his hands on Leslie’s chosen bride. As war breaks out between Verdopolis—Brontë’s imaginary political state—and Senegal, the lovers do battle for control of Emily’s heart. With its exotic melange of political intrigue, amorous subterfuge, and Gothic scenery, The Green Dwarf reveals the dynamic and experimental nature of Brontë’s “long apprenticeship in writing.” Charlotte Brontë is best remembered for her perennially popular novel Jane Eyre.

This book, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete novels of the Brontë Sisters:- Agnes Grey, by Anne Brontë- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë- Shirley, by Charlotte Brontë- Villette, by Charlotte Brontë- The Professor, by Charlotte Brontë- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë

Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters of Charlotte Bronte are our most direct source of information about the lives of the Brontes and our closest approach to the author of Jane Eyre. In them Charlotte writes of life at Haworth Parsonage, her experiences at a Belgian school, and her intense feelings for the Belgian schoolteacher, M. Heger. She endures the agony of the death of her siblings, and enjoys the success as a writer that brings her into contact with the London literary scene. Vivid and intimate, her letters give fresh insight into the novels, and into the development of her distinct literary style. The only available edition, this selection is derived from Margaret Smith's three-volume edition of Bronte's complete letters.In addition to Smith's Editor's Preface, the edition includes a critical introduction by Janet Gezari, who looks at the relationship between Bronte's letters and her fiction and how the letters add to the debate about her literary persona and the split between her public and her private life.

An ingenious, highly imaginative early novella, The Spell— a remarkable tale of love and jealousy, rivalry and thwarted ambition—is a testimony to Charlotte Brontë's craft as a writer. When the infant Marquis of Almeida is pronounced dead, the kingdoms of Wellingtonsland and Angria are deprived of their heir. Anxious to secure the nations’ future security, King Zamorna’s advisers entreat him to name his successor—and when Zamorna himself succumbs to a mysterious, life-threatening sickness, the need becomes more urgent still. Yet Zamorna remains strangely unperturbed. Confusion turns to political intrigue as those closest to him wonder exactly what it is he knows and who, precisely, are the mysterious characters surrounding him. English novelist Charlotte Brontë is best remembered for her perennially popular novel, Jane Eyre­.

عزيزى القـارئ :من عجب أن الشقيقات الثلاث من أسرة ( برونتى ) تشابهن فى كل شىء تقريبًا : تشابهن فى نبوغهن الأدبى ، وهزالهن البدنى ، وقصر أعمارهن ، كما تشابهن فى خلودهن بعد الموت !..وهكذا اقترن اسم كل منهن برواية من روائع الأدب الإنسانى ..وكان نصـيب صغراهن ( أن برونتى ) من هـذا الإنتاج رواية ( أجنسى جراى ) ، التى تروى قصة مربية للأطفال ، وإن كان نصيب هذه الرواية أقل من نصيب ( جين إير ) و(مرتفعات وذرنج ) .

عزيزى القـارئ :أقول إنهن تشابهن فى ضعف صحتهن ، وقصر أعمارهن ، بل وفى إصابتهن بنفس المرض الذى قضى على ثلاثتهن بالتعاقب ـ وهو مرض السـل أو التـدرن الرئـوى ـ فماتت به ( شارلوت ) فى سن التاسعة والثلاثين ، وماتـت به ( إميلى ) فى سـن الثلاثين .. ثم ماتت به ( آن ) فى سن التاسعة والعشرين !والواقع أن فواجع أسرة ( برونتى ) لا تقف عند هذا الحد ، ولعل هذه الفواجع هى المسئولة عن الجو القاتم الذى تتسم به رواياتهم جميعًا ، فقد كانت أسرة ( برونتى ) تتألف فى الأصل من ثمانية أفراد : الأب ، وهو قسيس كنيسة بجهة ( هاروث ) بإنجلترا .. وزوجته ، ثم أطفالهما السـتة ، وكانوا خمس بنات وولد ، هم بالترتيب : ماريا ، وإليزابيث ، وشالوت ، وبرانويل ، ( وهو الابن الذكر ) ، ثم إميلى ، وأخبرًا ( آن ) .

The quintessential romantic heroine -- and the prototype of Jane Eyre.Set in the imaginary kingdom of Angria, Charlotte Brontë’s early story of the Duke of Zamorna and his loyal mistress, Mina Laury, demonstrates the birth of her lifelong obsession with the degrees and forms of human passion. 'Mina Laury' is taken from The Juvenilia of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, which is published in Penguin Classics.The cover shows a detail from Portrait of Henrietta Sontag, 1831, by Paul Delaroche, in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (photo: Scala/Art Resource, NY)

Although the Bront�s have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic. Charlotte (1816-1855) is certainly a competent poet, and Anne (1820-1849) developed a distinctive voice, while Emily (1818-1848) is one of the great women poets in English.Read together with their novels, the poems movingly elucidate the ideas around which the narratives revolve. And they surprise us out of our conventional notions of the sisters' personalities: Emily's rebelliousness, for example, is counterbalanced here by great tenderness.This selection of over seventy poems gives an idea of the variety of thought and feeling within each author's work, and of the way in which the poems of these three remarkable writers parallel and reflect each other.

The sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne produced some of the most admired masterpieces of Victorian literature, in spite of their own tragic destinies. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of the Brontë Sisters, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 4) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to lives of the Brontë sisters and their works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 8 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Features rare poetry collections, including the complete poetical works of the Brontë Sisters * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Charlotte Brontë’s complete Juvenilia - spend hours exploring the author’s early works – many texts available in no other collection * Special bonus sections featuring the works of Patrick Brontë, the authors’ father, and Branwell Brontë, the brother of the famous sisters * Features four biographies - discover the Brontë’s literary life * UPDATED with new and scarce Juvenilia texts * UPDATED with rare poetry collections * UPDATED with more images and detailed introductions * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Charlotte Brontë’s Novels JANE EYRE SHIRLEY VILLETTE THE PROFESSOR EMMA Charlotte Brontë’s Juvenilia TALES OF ANGRIA MINA LAURY STANCLIFFE’S HOTEL THE STORY OF WILLIE ELLIN ALBION AND MARINA ANGRIA AND THE ANGRIANS TALES OF THE ISLANDERS THE GREEN DWARF ARTHURIANA OTHER JUVENILIA WORKS Emily Brontë’s Novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS Anne Brontë’s Novels AGNES GREY THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL The Poetry of the Brontë Sisters POEMS BY CURRER, ELLIS, AND ACTON BELL THE COMPLETE POEMS OF ANNE BRONTË THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY BRONTË The Poems of the Brontë Sisters LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER Patrick Brontë’s Works COTTAGE POEMS TWO SERMONS “AND THE WEARY ARE AT REST” Branwell Brontë’s Poetry LIST OF POEMS The Biographies THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË by Elizabeth Gaskell CHARLOTTE BRONTË by T. Wemyss Reid THE BRONTË FAMILY by Francis A. Leyland CHARLOTTE BRONTË AND HER CIRCLE by Clement King Shorter

The Bronte sisters lives and works have become modern-day cultural touchstones.Emily Bronte, best known for her novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS, began writing poetry first and, before her untimely death, wrote some of the most touching and emotive poems which often reflected the landscape of her Yorkshire home.Charlotte Bronte, whose novel JANE EYRE has had numerous TV and film adaptations, took responsibility for finding a home for their work. In her own words, ' We had very early cherished the dream of one day becoming authors'.Anne Bronte, author of AGNES GREY, often used autobiographical elements in her poems, giving us a hints of the struggles and turmoil of her life.These poems offer glimpses of the joys and sorrows of the Brontes and are a beautifully compelling introduction to their writing and lives.