Shirley
by Charlotte Bronte
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 0140620230
- ISBN 13
- 9780140620238
- Seller
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KALAMATA, Greece
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About This Item
Passionate and pain-filled, ferocious in their feeling, Jane Eyre and Villette celebrate the individual. In Shirley Charlotte Bronte chose to look wider to examine "the warped nature of things".
Written after the deaths of Branwell, Emily and Anne, she found it a struggle to finish and in her portraits of Shirley Keeldar and Caroline Helstone Charlotte Bronte poured out her feelings for her dead sisters. Nevertheless, it is a historical novel which depicts an uneasy era of Luddite riots, bad harvests and social unrest as well as Charlotte Bronte's belief that the denial of the world of feeling is responsible for much of society's suffering.
Tense, romantic, atmospheric, ringing with imaginative power, Charlotte Bronte's story of the two women and the men they loved grips until the last page.
Synopsis
Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, Shirley is an unsentimental yet passionate depiction of conflict among classes, sexes, and generations. Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar, yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline. Shirley, meanwhile, is in love with Roberts brother, an impoverished tutor. As industrial unrest builds to a potentially fatal pitch, can the four be reconciled?
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- Bookseller
- Fay Tsapoga (GR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10
- Title
- Shirley
- Author
- Charlotte Bronte
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140620230
- ISBN 13
- 9780140620238
- Publisher
- Penguin Popular Classicss
- Place of Publication
- England
- Date Published
- 1994
- Pages
- 666
- Keywords
- Literature
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