Alma Books Agnes Grey Бронте Энн

Discover the lesser-known but brilliant novel by the hugely under-appreciated Anne Bronte • When Agnes’s father loses the family savings, young Agnes determines to make her own living – as a governess. Working for the Bloomfields, her enthusiasm is soon dampened by isolation and the cruelty of the children in her charge. Agnes hopes for better in her second job, but when the scheming elder daughter Rosalie makes designs on Agnes’s new friend, the kind curate Mr Weston, she feels herself silenced and sidelined. Becoming a governess is one thing, becoming invisible is quite another

Drawing on her own experience, Anne Bronte exposes the isolated world of a nineteenth-century governess in her debut novel, Agnes Grey • Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by historian and biographer, Juliet Barker • Agnes Grey is the youngest daughter of a clergyman. When the family falls on hard times, she insists on finding work as a governess in order to help her family and prove to them that she's no longer a child. But her idealistic spirit is tested in her first position with the Bloomfield family and their unruly and spoilt children

Энн - младшая из трех сестер Бронте, умерла в 29 лет, успев написать лишь два романа. В отличие от своих знаменитых сестер, Шарлотты и Эмили, Энн Бронте пишет здраво, реалистично, показывая стороны действительности, о которых в Англии ее времени обычно молчали, - о пьянстве и о том, на что способен пьяный человек; о разводе и уходе жены от мужа-тирана. Она сама зарабатывала себе на жизнь тяжелым трудом и со страстью писала об угнетении женщин в обществе. Она ставила перед собой одну цель - "просто рассказать правду, ведь правда всегда преподносит урок" • "Агнес Грей" написана в популярном жанре середины XIX века - роман о гувернантке. История, в которой сбываются мечты, терпение и добродетель вознаграждаются, во многом автобиографична • Книга на английском языке

W.W. Jacobs delighted in finding unlikely humour in everyday situations and observations, and these tales succeed in raising a laugh from the most mundane of scenarios. In 'The Grey Parrot', a sailor buys a parrot for his wife, whom he suspects isn't faithful in his absence, hoping that the bird will inadvertently repeat anything untoward it hears. Unfortunately for him, the parrot exceeds his expectations, and it's not only his wife who is left blushing • This volume contains a careful selection of the very best stories from Jacobs's 150-strong repertory, and includes well-known standalone pieces such as 'The Monkey's Paw', as well as accounts of raucous dockside dalliances and tightly woven tales of poacher Bob Petty's crimes against the unlikely cast of an Essex village

When the orphaned William refuses his uncles’ proposal to become a clergyman and angrily leaves his job in the counting-house of his brother’s mill, he decides to accept a position as an English teacher at a boys’ school in Brussels. When his career leads him to take up an additional post at a girls’ school nearby, William becomes emotionally involved with the manipulative headmistress of the establishment, Mademoiselle Reuter. The tensions rise until one of his pupils and fellow teachers – for whom he has tender feelings – is suddenly dismissed and is nowhere to be found • Based on Charlotte Brontл’s own autobiographical experience in Brussels as a teacher and only published posthumously, The Professor was Charlotte Brontл’s first attempt at full-length fiction and bears all the hallmarks of her future work, with touches of genius and an unparalleled sharpness of style

The tale of Heathcliff and Cathy’s ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, shocked the book’s first readers, with even Emily’s sister Charlotte wondering “whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff” • Replete with unforgettable characters and situations that have seared themselves into our literary consciousness, Emily Bronte’s intense masterpiece is one of the most haunting love stories in the canon of English literature • Part of the Bronte sisters collection, this edition contains an extensive critical apparatus, extra reading material including a section of photographs and notes

A novel of high romance and great intensity, Jane Eyre has enjoyed popular success and critical acclaim ever since its first publication in 1847. Jane's journey from a troubled childhood to independence - and her turbulent love affair with the enigmatic Mr Rochester - electrified Victorian readers with its narrative power • With characters that are as unforgettable as the story they enact, and a striking use of language that amazed the readers of the day, Jane Eyre ranks among the most influential English novels ever written

Энн Бронте (1820-1849) - известная английская писательница и поэтесса, младшая из трех знаменитых сестер Бронте. "Агнес Грей" - ее глубоко личный роман, который повествует о реальных условиях жизни женщины в XIX веке • Агнес Грей - девушка независимая, сдержанная и серьезная. Более того - она прирожденный педагог, который искренне желает чему-то научить своих питомцев и нисколько не страшится ради этого вступить в конфликт со снобами-работодателями, неизменно принимающими сторону своих избалованных чад • Однако чего Агнес не могла даже вообразить, так это того, что однажды ее ученица, совсем юная красавица Розали Мэррей, бездумно и безжалостно учащаяся использовать на мужчинах свои недюжинные чары, станет весьма коварной соперницей собственной учительницы в борьбе за любовь обаятельного молодого священника Уэстона

Alma Classics edition of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer contains 3,000 notes and 30 pages extra material • "And specially from every shires ende • Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende, • The hooly blisful martir for to seke, • That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke." • Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a group of pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on the long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the teller of the best tale set to earn a free supper • The pilgrims correspond to all sections of medieval society, from the crusading knight to the drunken cook, and their tales span a range of genres, including the comic ribaldry and deception of 'The Miller's Tale' and the story of chivalry and courtly romance told by the Franklin

"Агнес Грей" - роман Энн Бронте, представительницы, пожалуй, одной из самых прославленных фамилий в английской литературе, вышедший в 1847 году. В том же году были опубликованы произведения ее знаменитых сестер: "Джейн Эйр" Шарлотты и "Грозовой перевал" Эмили. Некоторые прозорливые современники указывали на тонкий юмор и мастерство изображения повседневной жизни викторианской Англии и передачи самых деликатных чувств, присущие роману "Агнес Грей" и по праву делающие его автора классиком мировой литературы. Основываясь на собственном опыте, Энн Бронте создала историю исполнения желаний молодой гувернантки

Восемь лет назад семья Энн Элиот и её подруга леди Рассел убедили девушку разорвать помолвку с капитаном Фредериком Уэнтвортом в надежде на более выгодную партию. Их мечтам так и не суждено было сбыться. Теперь самой Энн почти тридцать. В этом возрасте найти хорошего мужа в начале XIX века не так просто, особенно леди из семьи, лишившейся немалой части своего состояния. Вдруг она снова встречается с капитаном. Чувства девушки разгораются с новой силой, но её возлюбленный ведёт себя холодно и даже открыто ухаживает за Луизой, молодой подругой Энн. Неужели его появление стало жестокой насмешкой судьбы? Или та всё-таки дала им второй шанс? • «Доводы рассудка» – нестареющая история любви, полная юмора, нежности и проницательных мыслей. Это последний законченный роман Джейн Остин, опубликованный посмертно

Already with thee! tender is the night, • And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, • Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays • But here there is no light, • Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown • Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways • Despite his tragically short life, John Keats, a self-confessed “rebel Angel”, endures for many as a personifi cation of the Romantic age. While contemporary critics mocked him as a “Cockney poet” and an uneducated lower-class “apothecary” who aspired to poetry, subsequent generations began to see and appreciate both the rich and impassioned sensuousness and the love of beauty and liberty that pervade his work • From Endymion and Hyperion to ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ and the Odes, this collection, which presents Keats’s oeuvre in chronological order, displays his rapid poetic growth, the development of his philosophical and spiritual beliefs and the voluptuous, silken nature of his verse