The Night is Darkening Round Me (Penguin Little Black Classics) - Softcover

Brontė, Emily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141398477 ISBN 13: 9780141398471

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2015

Synopsis

'... ever-present, phantom thing;
My slave, my comrade, and my king'

Some of Emily Brontė's most extraordinary poems

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Emily Brontė (1818-1848). Brontė's Wuthering Heights and The Complete Poems are available in Penguin Classics

About this title

From the Author:

Emily Brontė was born on 30th July 1818. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Brontė and the fifth of six children. From 1820 Emily's father was perpetual curate of Haworth in North Yorkshire. After the death of their mother in 1821, the older sisters were sent away to school and Emily joined them for a brief period, however two of her sisters contracted typhus and subsequently died and the remaining sisters and their brother were thereafter educated at home. Apart from a brief spell as a teacher, Emily spent the most part of her adult life at home, cooking, cleaning and teaching at Sunday school. In 1846 there appeared 'Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell', the pseudonyms of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontė. Wuthering Heights was Emily's only novel and was first published in 1847. Emily Brontė died from tuberculosis in 1848.

From the Back Cover:

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Emily Brontė (1818-1848). Brontė's Wuthering Heights and The Complete Poems are available in Penguin Classics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0141398477
• ISBN 13: 9780141398471
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64