Agnes Grey - formato ePub

La mansión en ruinas de Windfeld Hall lleva muchos años abandonada hasta este momento, cuando en ella se instalan unos nuevos y misteriososinquilinos: una mujer sola, viuda, al parecer, que llega con...

“¡Qué maravilloso sería convertirse en una institutriz! Salir al mundo...ganar mi propio sustento... ¡Enseñar a madurar a los jóvenes!” Éste es el sueño de la hija de un modesto vicario, un ideal de independencia...

Con el objetivo de contribuir a la menguada economía familiar y lograr la independencia económica, la protagonista de este relato decide trabajar como institutriz para la familia Bloomfield. Agnes Grey,...

La llegada de una joven desconocida, Helen Graham, y su hijo a la vieja mansión de Wildfell Hall despierta el interés, y luego las sospechas maliciosas, de los habitantes del tranquilo pueblo inglés...

Tras muchos años de abandono, la ruinosa mansión de Wildfell Hall es habitada de nuevo por una misteriosa mujer y su hijo de corta edad. La nueva inquilina –una viuda, al parecer –no tarda, con su carácter...

 La menor y menos conocida de las hermanas Brontë, Anne, logró reflejar con maestría en su primera novela a mediados del siglo XIX temas tan actuales como lo son la precariedad, el status social, el feminismo...

La breve vida de Anne Brontë, que no llegó a los treinta años, cundió lo suficiente para publicar dos novelas que hoy se consideran clásicas (Agnes Grey y La inquilina de Wildfell Hall) y para desarrollar...

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At age 19 Anne Brontë left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience as a governess. Bronte depicts the precarious position...

Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë, first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel by the English author Anne Brontë It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels,...

Cette édition contient la traduction française et le texte original en anglais. « Agnès Grey » est le premier des deux romans de l'écrivain anglais Anne Brontë. Publié en décembre 1847 sous le pseudonyme...

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble...

The novel is written in first person, and tells the story of Agnes Grey, the younger of two sisters of a family struck by an unexpected economic meltdown, that does not weigh on the parents leave home...

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It all starts with a fire. Seven children, asleep in a big house in the Italian countryside. A forgotten candle. Their parents are not there. They are in a different country, a different continent, Africa,...

A viciously funny and intelligently provocative play about family, friendship and faith, adapted by the author from his Pulitzer-finalist short story.Who in your life would you trust to keep you alive?...

When Daniel Leicester goes in search of his late wife's missing bicycle in the oppressive heat of a Bologna summer, he is transported to her final days. But as unfinished business bleeds - quite literally...

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Moidl is a farmer's daughter from the Hohenhauser Farm in Hintertux in the Zillertal region of Tyrol. Her close bonds with her family and the farm are her lifeblood, and the various blows they are dealt...

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Mysterious murders are taking place in the Lake District in the northwest of England. Mysterious, since there seems to be no connection between them and no motive can be determined for any of them. It...

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