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Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics Bronte Series)
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL
As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield Hall promises a kind of freedom. But Thornfield is a house full of secrets, its master a passionate, tormented man, and before long Jane faces her greatest struggle in a choice between love and self-respect.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Vintage Classics Bronte Series)
Helen Graham has come to Wildfell Hall to be left alone. The village has other ideas.
When Helen Graham arrives at Wildfell Hall, she brings with her a young son, a guarded manner and no wish to explain herself.
To the people around her, that is enough. Rumours gather quickly around the mysterious young widow: about where she has come from, what she is hiding and what kind of woman would choose such a lonely life. Gilbert Markham is drawn to her reserve, but affection does not give him the right to her story.
What Helen carries in silence is a past shaped by love, betrayal, religious conviction and the realities of a destructive marriage. As Gilbert begins to understand more, Anne Brontë turns a village mystery into something far braver: a Victorian novel about reputation, survival and a woman’s right to protect herself and her child.
Frank about drunkenness, adultery and the limits of marital obedience, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall shocked Victorian readers when it was first published. It remains one of the most courageous Brontë novels, and one of the most powerful classics about marriage, judgement and hard-won independence.
One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World
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'A powerful novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal' Daily Mail
'Courageous and controversial' The Times
Wuthering Heights (Vintage Classics Bronte Series)
'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then'
Wuthering Heights is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children.
Emily Brontë's novel remains a stunningly original and shocking exploration of obsessive passion.
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