Claire Harman

Broschiertes Buch

Charlotte Bronte

A Life

Beschreibung

Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Bronte's life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. This book presents an illuminating account of one of our best-loved novelists.

Autor

Claire Harman is the award-winning biographer of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1989), Fanny Burney (2000) and Robert Louis Stevenson (2005) and the author of the best-selling Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World (2009). She writes regularly for the literary press on both sides of the Atlantic and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006. Her most recent work is Charlotte Bronte: A Life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780241963661
• ISBN-10: 0241963664
• Artikelnr.: 43613751

Rezensionen

Harman's sane, unshowy re-telling is exactly right for the bicentenary next April. The result is a retooled classic biographical narrative, shipshape and serviceable for the next 200 years The Guardian