Author: Edgar F. Harden
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349140732
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 447
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These letters have been selected according to their ability to convey the essential biographical developments of a very interesting life, and their ability to represent highly characteristic verbal and pictorial expressions of a great man of letters. In spite of his struggles, Thackeray articulates in his letters an exhuberance characteristic of one of the great enjoyers of life. Seventy five of his comical illustrations accompany the texts of these letters.
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015792135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Stella Stewart Center
Publisher:
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Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Author: Charlotte Brontë
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191612871
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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'Dangerous as lucifer matches.' That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Brontë's husband for the last nine months of her life, described her letters. Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters are our most direct source of information about the lives of the Brontës and our closest approach to the author of Jane Eyre. In them Charlotte writes of life at Haworth Parsonage, her experiences at a Belgian school, and her intense feelings for the Belgian schoolteacher, M. Heger. She endures the agony of the death of her siblings, and enjoys the success as a writer that brings her into contact with the London literary scene. Vivid and intimate, her letters give fresh insight into the novels, and into the development of her distinct literary style. Margaret Smith's fine edition includes invaluable notes on Brontë's correspondents, and Janet Gezari contributes a new introduction that relates the letters to both Brontë's life and her creative accomplishment. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author: Claude Moore Fuess
Publisher:
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Category : American letters
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
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Category : 1853
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Author: Margaret Smith
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191525626
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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These letters give an insight into the life of a writer whose novels continue to be bestsellers. They reveal much about Charlotte Brontë's personal life, her family relationships, and the society in which she lived. Many of her early letters are written with vigour, vivacity, and an engaging aptitude for self-mockery. In contrast, her letters to her 'master', the Belgian schoolteacher Constantin Heger, reveal her intense, obsessive longing for some response from him. Other letters are deeply moving, when Charlotte endures the agony of her brother's and sisters' untimely deaths. We learn also of the progress of her writing, including the astonishing success of Jane Eyre, and of her contacts with her publishers, including the young George Smith; and we recognize in her letters the life-experiences which are transmuted into the art of her novels. Contemporary society is brilliantly described in her letters from London, when she writes of her encounters with famous writers and with critics of her novels. We hear too of her visits to art galleries, operas, and the Great Exhibition of 1851 at the Crystal Palace. Dramatic letters written in December 1852 convey the 'turbulence of feeling' in the Haworth curate Arthur Nicholls's proposal of marriage to her and in Mr Brontë's violent reaction to it; and we subsequently hear of her secret correspondence with her suitor, her father's eventual consent, and her tragically brief happy marriage, cut short by her death in March 1855.
Author: Joseph Grego
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Author: william makepeace thackeray
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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