Vintage books Agnes Grey Бронте Энн

The well-educated daughter of a penniless clergyman, Agnes Grey is treated like a child by her family and so sets out to prove herself by seeking employment as a governess. Soon, however, her idealistic notions regarding the education and care of her wards are dashed as she battles to control the wild Bloomfield children in her first situation, and is then held in low regard by the superior Murray household • Drawing on Anne Bronte's own experiences, and dealing with themes such as the nature of childhood, the rise of the middle classes and the loneliness, cruelty and even ill treatment that life as a governess could entail, Agnes Grey is full of quiet passion and remains a beloved classic to this day

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

За роман "Уроки дыхания" Энн Тайлер получила Пулитцеровскую премию • Мэгги порывиста и непосредственна, Айра обстоятелен и нетороплив. Мэгги совершает глупости. За Айрой такого греха не водится. Они женаты двадцать восемь лет. Их жизнь обычна, спокойна и... скучна. В один невеселый день они отправляются в автомобильное путешествие - на похороны старого друга. Но внезапно Мэгги слышит по радио, как в прямом эфире ее бывшая невестка объявляет, что снова собирается замуж. И поездка на похороны оборачивается экспедицией по спасению брака сына. Трогательная, ироничная, смешная и горькая хроника одного дня из жизни Мэгги и Айры - это глубокое погружение в самую суть семейных отношений, комедия, скрещенная с высокой драмой • Книга на английском языке

Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy bachelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding house and spends his days cutting up coloured paper to make small collages - until the day his mother dies and the beautiful Mary Tell arrives to turn his world upside down

For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life's earthly possessions and emotional complications. In the bank, she withdraws enough money to escape a life and a marriage gone sour. But Charlotte is about to escape in a way she never expected, as a young bank robber takes her hostage, and they head south for Florida in a stolen car

Kate Battista is stuck • How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and infuriating younger sister Bunny? • Dr Battista has other problems. His brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr, his new scientific breakthrough will fall through • When Dr Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he's relying - as usual - on Kate to help him. Will Kate be able to resist the two men's touchingly ludicrous campaign to win her round? • Anne Tyler's brilliant retelling of The Taming of the Shrew asks whether a thoroughly modern woman like Kate would ever sacrifice herself for a man. The answer is as surprising as Kate herself

A bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread • Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: her mother’s disappearance when she was just a child, being proposed to at an airport at the age of twenty-one, the accident that would leave her a widow in her forties. Each time, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others • So when she receives a phone call from a stranger informing her that her son’s ex-girlfriend has been shot, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman and her nine-year-old daughter leads Willa into uncharted territory and the eventual realisation that it’s never too late to choose your own path

When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age before his eyes. Consumed by guilt Ian finds the hope of forgiveness at the Church of the Second Chance, and leaves college to cope with the three children he has inherited and his own embarrassing religion • Twenty years on, Ian's prospects of a second chance are receding fast when, out of the heart of the domesticity that has engulfed him, strides a new figure who will bring him new life

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968 • The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars

"Грозовой перевал" - это история о двух семьях, объединенных любовью и ненавистью. Кэти - красивая и своенравная молодая женщина, разрывающаяся между своим мягкосердечным мужем и Хитклиффом, страстным и обиженным мужчиной, который любил ее с детства. Сила их связи создает водоворот жестокости и насилия, который приведет к смерти одного из них и бросит тень на жизни их детей • Роман Эмили Бронте остается потрясающе оригинальным и шокирующим исследованием навязчивой страсти • Книга на английском языке • Rediscover Emily Bronte's powerful tale of love, violence and obsession • 'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then' • Wuthering Heights is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood

Детство Джейн, сироты, было полно неприятностей, но ее упрямая независимость и чувство собственного достоинства помогают ей справляться с невзгодами, причиняемыми жестокими родственниками и жестокой школой. Должность гувернантки в Торнфилд-холле обещает своего рода свободу. Но Торнфилд - это дом, полный тайн, его хозяин - страстный, измученный человек, и вскоре Джейн сталкивается со своей величайшей борьбой за выбор между любовью и самоуважением • Книга на английском языке • A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece • As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield Hall promises a kind of freedom