Shirley (penguin Popular Classics)

ISBN: 0140620230
Author: Charlotte Bronte
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In Shirley, Charlotte Bronte chose to examine 'the warped nature of things'. Written after the deaths of Branwell, Emily and Anne, she found it a struggle to finish and in her portraits of Shirley Keeldar and Caroline Helstone Charlotte poured out her feelings for her dead sisters. Nevertheless, it is a historic novel which depicts an uneasy era of Luddite riots, bad harvests and social unrest as well as Charlotte's belief that the denial of the world of feeling is responsible for much of society's suffering. Tense, romantic, atmospheric, ringing with imaginative power, Charlotte Bronte's story of the two women and the men they loved grips until the last page.

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