Selections from the Brontës: Being Extracts from the Novels of Charlotte and Emily Brontë

by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, H. A. Treble (Editor)

Overview

Originally published in 1927, this book presents a series of extracts from the novels of Charlotte and Emily Brontë. Created with the younger reader in mind, the text was intended to act as an introduction to the novels and an inducement to read them in their entirety. An editorial introduction and bibliographical details are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the writings of Charlotte and Emily Brontë.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107689602
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/17/2014
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), English writer noted for her novel Jane Eyre (1847), sister of Anne Brontë and Emily Brontë. The three sisters are almost as famous for their short, tragic lives as for their novels. The collection of poems, Poems By Currer, Ellis And Acton Bell (1846), which Charlotte wrote with her sisters, sold only two copies. Her novel The Professor never found a publisher during her lifetime. Undeterred by this rejection, Charlotte began Jane Eyre, which appeared in 1847 and became an immediate success. Jane Eyre was followed by Shirley (1848) and Vilette (1853).

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The adventure of going abroad from Vilette; 2. A glimpse of the professor behind his spectacles from Villette; 3. The fairy Malevola from Villette; 4. A journey, and the first day at Lowood from Jane Eyre; 5. Mr Rochester from Jane Eyre; 6. The interrupted wedding from Jane Eyre; 7. Home at last from Jane Eyre; 8. The church militant from Shirley; 9. The curates at tea from Shirley; 10. The foundling from Wuthering Heights.