Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë audiobook

Agnes Grey

By Anne Brontë
Read by Wanda McCaddon

Blackstone Publishing

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 4 Formats: CD
  • 4 Formats: Library CD
  • 4 Formats: MP3 CD
  • 4 Formats: Playaway

  • ISBN: 9781470886561

  • ISBN: 9780786161553

  • ISBN: 9780786161560

  • ISBN: 9781605147079

Runtime: 6.46 Hours
Category: Fiction/Classics
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Written when she was twenty-six, Agnes Grey is Anne Brontë's first novel. It tells the story of a rector's daughter who has to earn her living as a governess when her family enters a financial crisis. Drawing directly from her own experiences, Anne Brontë set out to describe the immense pressures that the governess' 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 sharp eye for bourgeois attitudes and behavior—and the corrosive power of wealth.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“The most perfect prose narrative in English letters.” —George Moore, novelist
“Anne Brontë attacks her problem with a freedom and audacity before which her sisters boldest enterprises seem cowardly and restrained…Her behavior is revolutionary.” —May Sinclair, novelist and suffragist
“Agnes Grey is a charming novel, full of fine character painting and strongly marked by the exquisite development and analysis of the female heart…Agnes Grey, the heroine, herself, is one of the most vigorous and truthful drawings of character, one of the finest pieces of pen-limning that we have encountered anywhere.” —Graham’s Magazine (1850)
“I should like to give it to every family with a governess and shall read it through again when I have a governess to remind me to be human.” —Lady Amberly
[McCaddon] 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

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Author

Author Bio: Anne Brontë

Author Bio: Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë (1820–1849) was born in Yorkshire, the youngest of six children. Her mother died within a year of her birth, and her two eldest siblings died four years later. The Brontë children were raised in an isolated Yorkshire 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 in a volume together with Emily’s Wuthering Heights in 1847. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall reflects her brother Branwell’s gradual descent into alcoholism, drug addiction, and madness. Both Branwell and Emily died of tuberculosis in 1848; Anne succumbed to the same illness in 1849.

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Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD, Playaway
Category: Fiction/Classics
Runtime: 6.46
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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