Книга: Selected Works of the Bronte Sisters (TPB)

Jane EyreRanks as one of the greatest and most popular works of English fiction. Charlotte Bronte s heroine is plain, but she possesses courage and an indomitable spirit, overcoming a rigid social order as the governess to the daughter of the mysterious Mr.Rochester. VilletteBased on Charlotte Bronte s experience as a teacher in Brussels. It is a moving tale of repressed feelings and cruel circumstances borne with fortitude. It is also a story of a woman s right to love and be loved. The ProfessorCharlotte Bronte s story of love and doubt, as her hero, William Crimsworth, seeks his fortune as a teacher in Brussels and finds his love for the good Anglo-Swiss girl, Frances Henri, severely tested by the sensuously beguiling and manipulative headmistress, Zorai de Reuter. Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte s wild, passionate tale of the intense, almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine s father. After Mr Earnshaw s death, Heathcliff is humilliated 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 and polished man, he proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. Agnes GreyAnne Bronte 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 HallShows Anne Bronte s bold, naturalistic and passionate style. It is a powerful and sometimes violent novel portraying the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious tenant of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband.