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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-07-26 Pages: 720 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books The Penguin English Library Edition of Shirley by Charlotte BronteAlas. Experience! No other mentor has so wasted and frozen a face as yours: none wears a robe so black. none bears a rod so heavy ... Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill. arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar to solve his financial woes. yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline. who. bored and desperate. lives as a dependent in her uncles home with no prospect of a career. Shirley. meanwhile. is in love with Roberts brother. an impoverished tutor - a match opposed by her family. As industrial unrest builds to a potentially fatal pitch. can the four be reconcil...
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About the Author:
Charlotte Brontė (1816-55) was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, one of an extraordinary group of siblings who spent their time immersed in reading and writing and between them went on to change the nature of English fiction. Publishing under the pseudonym Currer Bell, Charlotte was a great friend of Elizabeth Gaskell, who wrote her biography, as well as William Makepeace Thackeray and George Henry Lewes.
Brontė's novels Jane Eyre and Villette are also published in the Penguin English Library.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0141199539
- ISBN 13 9780141199535
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages720
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