Anne Brontë (15 kníh)
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Anne Brontë Agnes Grey ENHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.' Anne Bronte's debut novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, a young woman who is determined to seek work as a governess…
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Anne Brontë, Anne Brontë Agnes Grey ENWhen her family becomes impoverished after a disasterous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess. This is a personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women in Victorian society. Agnes Grey is undoubtedly a deeply personal novel, in which Anne Bronte views on the 'contemporary' issue of the treatment of governesses, as well as her passionate religious…
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Anne Brontë Agnes Greyová CZŽivotní příběh hlavní hrdinky se dramaticky mění, když se její rodina ocitne ve finančních potížích a ona zvolí jako východisko přijetí práce guvernantky v bohaté rodině. Působí u dvou rodin, musí se vyrovnávat se zkažeností prakticky nevychovatelných dětí, aby si nakonec po smrti otce s matkou otevřela vlastní školu. V příběhu se zrcadlí zkušenosti autorky, a přestože pochází z roku 1845 a odehrává se ve…
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Anne Brontë Agnes GreyováAgnes Greyová, mladšia dcéra chudobného duchovného, chce pomôcť rodine a spoznať svet, preto sa zamestná ako guvernantka - to bola v 19. storočí pre ženu zo strednej vrstvy jediná prípustná profesia. Život guvernantky je však oveľa ťažší, než si Agnes predstavovala. Býva ďaleko od domova, uprostred nepriateľsky naladených ľudí, zamestnávatelia sa k nej správajú ako k slúžke, služobníctvo ju nerešpektuje a žiaci,…
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Anne Brontë Dvojí život Heleny Grahamové CZDo neobývaného a rozpadlého sídla na anglickém venkově se přistěhuje mladá a hezká vdova s malým synkem. Helena Grahamová okamžitě vzbudí zájem starousedlíků, kteří se začnou pídit po její minulosti. Nová sousedka však o svých osudech zarytě mlčí, a tak brzy začnou kolovat klepy: Helena je pyšná a nespolečenská žena, jež se nechá dobývat muži jen proto, aby vzápětí mohla pohrdnout jejich láskou. Skrývá prý tajemství…
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Anne Brontë Nájomníčka vo Wildfell HallDo rozpadnutého starého kaštieľa v utiahnutom kúte anglického vidieka sa nečakane prisťahuje mladá vdova so synom a slúžkou. Susedia sú na ňu zvedaví a začínajú sa s ňou spoznávať, no jej názory na život a výchovu syna sa priečia ich zažitým predstavám. Vo chvíli, keď sa do nej zahľadí mladý farmár Gilbert Markham a začne ju porovnávať so svojimi blízkymi, roztočí sa okolo nej kolotoč pochybností, klebiet, dohadov a…
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Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë The Brontë Sisters (Boxed Set) ENJane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Villette. This stunning box set brings together the Bronte sisters' four greatest novels in beautiful Penguin editions designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. From the bleak moors of Wuthering Heights to the Belgian capital in Villette, and the mysterious, gloomy country estates of Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, these four novels of…
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Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë The Classic Works of The Brontë Sisters ENThis collection brings together three pieces of work that, incredibly, were all published within a single year. That Jane Eyre (Charlotte), Wuthering Heights (Emily) and Agnes Grey (Anne), works of such lasting quality, were produced in such a short space of time is incredible enough: that it was all the output of three sisters living straitened lives in a lonely Yorkshire village was extraordinary. The story of the…
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Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë The Complete Novels ENThis beautiful edition makes a great gift or collector’s item. It is illustrated. The evocative landscape illustrations are taken from the Shakespeare Head edition of the Bronte novels and are by Jack Hewer, while the remainder by B.S. Grieg are from the Dent edition of 1893.
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Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ENEach volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is by Kathryn White, an established expert on the Bronte family and former Librarian of The Bronte Parsonage Museum at Haworth on the Yorkshire Moors.
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Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ENShe looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it. Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced. It is…
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Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ENI see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.When Helen flees from her alcoholic husband in order to protect her son she defies societal convention. Earning a living as an artist, she becomes the mysterious tenant of Wildfell Hall as she hides herself away and uses her art to support her child. However, the beautiful and reclusive young woman soon…
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Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë Three Novels ENThis is the most cherished novel from each of England's talented sisters, in one gorgeously packaged volume. The Bronte family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights have won lofty places in the pantheon and stirred the romantic sensibilities of generations of readers. This Leatherbound Classics edition unites these two enduring favourites with…
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