Shirley - Classis Version (Annotated, Quotes, Author's Biography, Other Features)
Shirley“One of the thousand novels everyone must read.” The Guardian“Shirley Keeldar, the heiress to whom the financially straitened mill-owner Robert Moore becomes engaged, is a woman with rare freedom and power.” Paul Laity“I must read this book once a year, because it affects me so profoundly...
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Shirley“One of the thousand novels everyone must read.” The Guardian“Shirley Keeldar, the heiress to whom the financially straitened mill-owner Robert Moore becomes engaged, is a woman with rare freedom and power.” Paul Laity“I must read this book once a year, because it affects me so profoundly when I do read it. Though the heroine of Shirley is actually named Caroline, and she isn't a swashbuckling dame or a fiery temptress or really even anything remarkable, she makes for a remarkable read and is surrounded by brilliant people and events.” Friend the Girl“I found this one full of more humor than all the other Brontë novels. I was grinning at her skewering of the awkward social habits of various neighbors, and at the bantering between friends and siblings. Those moments, along with the swooning crushes, brought the 1800s to life for me. “ Molly RingleSHIRLEY is Charlotte Brontë’s follow-up to Jane Eyre. Read one of the greatest novels of all time in a beautifully presented edition specially designed for kindle. This is Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece which will stay with you forever.
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00HIMY6G2
Publish date: 2013-12-24
Pages no: 641
Edition language: English
How is it that I never read this book before now? It's magnificent! It's everything I love about Jane Eyre, but with so much more to satisfy my more mature literary palate.It has Charlotte's beautiful, lyric language, serious discussions about religion and spirituality, not just one but two heroin...
[http://swiatyzpolki.blogspot.com/2014/07/019-charlotte-bronte-shirley.html] Z najsławniejszą z sióstr, Charlotte, miałam już do czynienia przy lekturze Dziwne losy Jane Eyre. Mogłam przypuszczać, że wiem z czym "jeść" książki jej autorstwa, bo poniekąd poznałam jej styl. I chyba się troszkę pomylił...
Kim był Currer Bell? Na wypadek jakiegoś konkursu zapamiętajcie to nazwisko - to nikt inny tylko Charlotte Brontë we własnej osobie. Pod takim pseudonimem wydawała swoje powieści, pod takim też mianem po raz pierwszy na brytyjskim rynku ukazała się "Shirley". Jest to książka, która nie trzyma poziom...
Unfortunately, this is no Jane Eyre. But if you want to spend 25 hours listening to a marriage plot where the heroines waste away because of unrequited love, then this might be the book for you. I was disappointed at the sexism in this book. Jane Eyre is such a great heroine and one of the things...
Originally posted at Gypsy Reviews.Shirley is undoubtedly a very unique novel, unlike Brontë’s other novels, it focuses more on social and political issues rather than the story. I do not claim to be an expert on these matters at all because I have little knowledge of the Napoleonic Wars and therefo...