The Professor
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781853262081 (1853262080)
Publish date: April 1st 1994
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Pages no: 212
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Classic Literature,
Historical Romance,
19th Century,
English Literature
The ProfessorIn one sense, this is exactly what you would expect from the author of Jane Eyre - a romance in which the characters have no particularly good looks and prize mutual respect, intelligence, education and moral rectitude (according to Charlotte's views on the latter). In every other respe...
To read the first work of a much adored writer can be either a revelation or more likely a deception, sometimes even a big one because not many succeed in producing outstanding literature already in the very first try. Writing like any other occupation needs practice. And experience of life usually ...
It was good to be back in Brontë-land, even early Brontë. Few authors have that passionate, idiomatic sweep of phrase; it was intriguing to hear this voice coming from a male instead of a female narrator. Other people have summarized at length the various irritants to a modern or liberal reader - t...
W chwili, gdy na rynku wydawniczym pojawiły się powieści sióstr Brontë, które nigdy dotąd nie były dostępne polskiemu czytelnikowi, byłam, jako wielka wielbicielka XIX-wiecznej literatury, zupełnie szczęśliwa i zachwycona. Dziś mam już za sobą lekturę każdej z nich, a moje odczucia są bardzo różne. ...
The Professor may be considered by some as nothing more than a draft of Villette, but I must confess I preferred it to its successor. Maybe that's merely because of my romantic nature, especially since i found the ending a trifle more satisfying, but I think that it also relates to the fact that thi...
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