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Agnes Grey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: : Open Road Media Romance, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (295 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781504001632
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Agnes GreyDDC classification:
  • 823/.7
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Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- CHAPTER I-THE PARSONAGE -- CHAPTER II-FIRST LESSONS IN THE ART OF INSTRUCTION -- CHAPTER III-A FEW MORE LESSONS -- CHAPTER IV-THE GRANDMAMMA -- CHAPTER V-THE UNCLE -- CHAPTER VI-THE PARSONAGE AGAIN -- CHAPTER VII-HORTON LODGE -- CHAPTER VIII-THE 'COMING OUT' -- CHAPTER IX-THE BALL -- CHAPTER X-THE CHURCH -- CHAPTER XI-THE COTTAGERS -- CHAPTER XII-THE SHOWER -- CHAPTER XIII-THE PRIMROSES -- CHAPTER XIV-THE RECTOR -- CHAPTER XV-THE WALK -- CHAPTER XVI-THE SUBSTITUTION -- CHAPTER XVII-CONFESSIONS -- CHAPTER XVIII-MIRTH AND MOURNING -- CHAPTER XIX-THE LETTER -- CHAPTER XX-THE FAREWELL -- CHAPTER XXI-THE SCHOOL -- CHAPTER XXII-THE VISIT -- CHAPTER XXIII-THE PARK -- CHAPTER XXIV-THE SANDS -- CHAPTER XXV-CONCLUSION -- Copyright.
Summary: Anne Brontë's debut novel tells the realistic and moving story of a young governess For well-educated women of lesser means in the mid-nineteenth century, there was only one option for employment that paid decently and provided a sense of dignity: becoming a governess. These young women were tasked with educating the children of the rich in the ways of the world. When the Grey family falls into debt, Agnes is forced to find work as a governess and learns of the misery and cruelty that exist in the landed classes. In her first home, she sees a family with spoiled, abusive children; and in the second, she discovers the misery of the elite, who seem from afar to have everything. Drawing from her own experiences as a governess, Brontë has crafted with warmth and realism the story of a young woman named Agnes Grey. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
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Anne Brontë's debut novel tells the realistic and moving story of a young governess

For well-educated women of lesser means in the mid-nineteenth century, there was only one option for employment that paid decently and provided a sense of dignity: becoming a governess. These young women were tasked with educating the children of the rich in the ways of the world.

When the Grey family falls into debt, Agnes is forced to find work as a governess and learns of the misery and cruelty that exist in the landed classes. In her first home, she sees a family with spoiled, abusive children; and in the second, she discovers the misery of the elite, who seem from afar to have everything. Drawing from her own experiences as a governess, Brontë has crafted with warmth and realism the story of a young woman named Agnes Grey.

This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Cover -- Title Page -- CHAPTER I-THE PARSONAGE -- CHAPTER II-FIRST LESSONS IN THE ART OF INSTRUCTION -- CHAPTER III-A FEW MORE LESSONS -- CHAPTER IV-THE GRANDMAMMA -- CHAPTER V-THE UNCLE -- CHAPTER VI-THE PARSONAGE AGAIN -- CHAPTER VII-HORTON LODGE -- CHAPTER VIII-THE 'COMING OUT' -- CHAPTER IX-THE BALL -- CHAPTER X-THE CHURCH -- CHAPTER XI-THE COTTAGERS -- CHAPTER XII-THE SHOWER -- CHAPTER XIII-THE PRIMROSES -- CHAPTER XIV-THE RECTOR -- CHAPTER XV-THE WALK -- CHAPTER XVI-THE SUBSTITUTION -- CHAPTER XVII-CONFESSIONS -- CHAPTER XVIII-MIRTH AND MOURNING -- CHAPTER XIX-THE LETTER -- CHAPTER XX-THE FAREWELL -- CHAPTER XXI-THE SCHOOL -- CHAPTER XXII-THE VISIT -- CHAPTER XXIII-THE PARK -- CHAPTER XXIV-THE SANDS -- CHAPTER XXV-CONCLUSION -- Copyright.

Anne Brontë's debut novel tells the realistic and moving story of a young governess For well-educated women of lesser means in the mid-nineteenth century, there was only one option for employment that paid decently and provided a sense of dignity: becoming a governess. These young women were tasked with educating the children of the rich in the ways of the world. When the Grey family falls into debt, Agnes is forced to find work as a governess and learns of the misery and cruelty that exist in the landed classes. In her first home, she sees a family with spoiled, abusive children; and in the second, she discovers the misery of the elite, who seem from afar to have everything. Drawing from her own experiences as a governess, Brontë has crafted with warmth and realism the story of a young woman named Agnes Grey. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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Written when she was twenty-six, Agnes Greyis Anne Brontë's first novel. It tells the story of a rector's daughter who has to earn her living as a governess. Drawing directly from her own experiences, Anne Brontë set out to describe the immense pressures that the governess's life involved: the frustration, the isolation, and the insensitive and cruel treatment on the part of employers and their families. Mature, insightful, and edged with a quiet irony, this debut displays a keen sense of moral responsibility and a sharp eye for bourgeois attitudes and behavior. "May makes the young protagonist come to life in her nuanced first-person reading; her crisp and educated voice conveying the narrator's energy and persistent optimism, while renderings of Agnes' masters, mistresses, and young charges show them for the uncouth bullies that they actually are, despite their superior airs and flaunted gentility." --Kliatt Anne Brontë was born in Yorkshire in 1820. The Brontë children were raised in an isolated parsonage, where they thrived in fantasy worlds that drew on their voracious reading of Byron, Scott, Shakespeare, and Gothic fiction. Anne's first novel, Agnes Grey, was published together with her sister Emily's Wuthering Heightsin 1847. She died of tuberculosis in 1849, shortly after Emily and brother Branwell died of the same illness. Nadia May is one of the pioneers of audiobook narration, with twenty-five years of recording and over 600 titles to her credit. Named one of AudioFile'sGolden Voices, she has won fourteen Earphones Awards. She is also a well known stage actor in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her husband and two badly behaved dogs. Excerpted from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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