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The Brontë sisters : the brief lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne
Title:
The Brontë sisters : the brief lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne
Author:
Reef, Catherine.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston : Clarion Books, 2012.
Physical Description:
231 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Summary:
Explores the turbulent lives of the three literary siblings and the oppressive times in which they lived, and offers insight into their classic nineteenth-century novels.
Language:
English
Contents:
"Oh god, my poor children!" -- "Bend inclination to duty" -- "What on earth is half so dear?" -- "Who ever rose...without ambition?" -- "A peculiar music" -- "It is soul speaking to soul" -- "Moorish, and wild, and knotty as a root of heath" -- A dreadful darkness closes in" -- "Out of obscurity I came" -- "I should fancy I heard the steps of the dead" -- Afterword: "Alas!"
Reading Level:
1080 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.8 6.0 154528.
ISBN:
9780547579665
Format :
Book