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A rollicking adventure from the Brontes' imagined kingdom of Verdopolis, "The Secret" is a novel of intrigue, duplicity, and all-conquering love. Arthur, the Marquis of Douro, his beautiful wife, Marion, and their infant son lead a happy and carefree existence in the city of Verdopolis--until a chance encounter brings the youthful Marchioness' childhood governess back into their lives. The meeting proves to be the catalyst for an increasingly ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

A devoted readership will recognize Dame Darcy as the creator of highly original and off-kilter comic books. Here she uses her lavishly detailed illustrations to bring the best-loved Victorian novel Jane Eyre back into the spotlight. Darkly elegant illustrations draw back the novel's curtain, revealing the depths of human depravity, despair, and ultimate redemption. Sure to impress traditional fans and newcomers alike, The Illustrated Jane Eyr...

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Tijdens een hevige sneeuwstorm is Lockwood gedwongen zijn toevlucht te zoeken in een spookachtig landhuis, Woeste Hoogten. Daar hoort hij het aangrijpende verhaal van de allesverslindende liefde tussen Catherine en de donkere en mysterieuze vondeling Heathcliff. Catherine verraadt hem, Heatchliffs verbittering hierover slaat om in een wraakoefening die als een vloek op hun onschuldige nazaten rust. Zij krijgen pas respijt als Heathcliff en Cat...

Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivor-qualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer

Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivor-qualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer

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First published in 1853, "Villette" is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, recounts a turbulent life's journey--a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature.

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Charlotte Bronte's well-loved masterpiece.

Anne Bront (1820-1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bront literary family. She lived most of her life with her family at the remote village of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. For a couple of years she went to a boarding school. At the age of nineteen, she left Haworth working as a governess between 1839 and 1845. After leaving her teaching position, she fulfilled her literary ambitions. She wrote a volume of poet...

Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848) was a British novelist and poet. She published under the masculine pen name Ellis Bell. In 1824, her family moved to Haworth, where Emily's father was perpetual curate, and it was in these surroundings that her literary oddities flourished. It was the discovery of Emily's poetic talent by her family that led her and her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, to publish a joint collection of their poetry in 1846, Poems by Cu...

Charlotte Bront (1816-1855) was a British novelist, the eldest of the three famous Bront sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. Charlotte Bront is best known for Jane Eyre (1847), one of the most famous of British novels. Charlotte continued her education at Roe Head, Mirfield, from 1831 to 1832. During this period (1833), she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf under the name of Wellesley. Charlotte returned as a teac...

First published in 1847, Wuthering Heights is set in the isolated valleys of the Yorkshire moors, and the changing aspects of landscape and sky in winter and summer find their counterparts in the characters of the central figures, Heathcliff, Cathy, and the Lintons, who can be regarded as the embodiment of conflicting cosmic forces, opposed to, but not irreconcilable with, each other. The poetic intensity of Emily Bronte's sublimity of the sto...