Charlotte Brontë

Lucy Snowe makes her way by teaching, as she unhappily watches John Bretton's infatuation for the flirt, Ginevra Fanshawe, but then she falls in love with and transforms the professor, Monsieur Paul Emanuel.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.' Considered one of her less well-known novels, Shirley is Charlotte Brontë's only historical work, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Wealthy and independent, Shirley is very different from her friend Caroline who has few...

A reworking of "The Professor", the author's first novel, "Villette" is Charlotte Bronte's fourth and last novel which is loosely based upon her own experiences at a boarding school in Brussels. The work follows the life of Lucy Snowe, a quiet yet self-reliant young girl without any family, from her life in the English countryside where she lives with her Godmother, to London, and finally to the French town of Villette, where she gains employment...

Charlotte Brontës Meisterwerk, das sie im Alter von knapp dreißig Jahren verfasste, zählt zu den großen Frauenromanen der Weltliteratur. Im Mittelpunkt des Geschehens stehen die Gouvernante Jane Eyre und Edward Rochester, der Herr von Thornfield Hall. Edward, dessen uneheliche Tochter Adèle von Jane unterrichtet wird, verliebt sich in Jane, aber zur Hochzeit kommt es – vorerst – nicht. Schreckliche Dinge passieren in dem düsteren Herrenhaus,...

"The Search After Happiness" is an 1829 novel by Charlotte Brontë. Written when the author was just thirteen years old, it is a disturbing tale of mysterious men and enslaving creatures that poses many questions but answers few. An uncanny insight into the mind of a young literary genius, "The Search After Happiness" is not to be missed by those who have read and enjoyed other works by this author. Charlotte Brontë (1816 – 31 March 1855) was an...

"Jane Eyre" follows the emotions and experiences of its character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester. The focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core. "Shirley" is a social novel and is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811—12, during...

Charlotte Brontë: Shirley Roman Neu editierte 2021er Ausgabe, mit aktualisierter Rechtschreibung und zahlreichen erklärenden Fußnoten Yorkshire, zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts: Das Leben der jungen Caroline, die nach dem Tod des Vaters und dem Weggang der Mutter ohne Vermögen und Zukunftsperspektive in der Nähe ihres Cousins Robert lebt, erfährt eine Wendung, als Shirley Keeldar in ihr Leben tritt: Die junge Gutsbesitzerin, die von ihren Eltern...

"And this man I bent over, this commonplace, quiet stranger, how had he become involved in the web of horror and why had the Fury flown at him?" This Gothic Romance of strength, rebellion, and desire will stick with you long after you've finished reading. An orphan girl is, forced to find her own way in Victorian England and becomes a governess in a gothic mansion that has dark and terrifying secrets. When the mysterious master of the house returns,...

Poetry reflecting the early Victorian trends in literature. "Love is like the wild rose-briar, Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?" A volume of poetry written by the Bronte sisters described by Emily, the middle sister, as "crude thoughts of the unripe mind."

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