Selections from the Brontës
Being Extracts from the Novels of Charlotte and Emily Brontë

Originally published in 1927, this book presents a series of extracts from the novels of Charlotte and Emily Brontë.

Charlotte Brontë (Author), Emily Brontë (Author), H. A. Treble (Edited by)

9781107689602, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 July 2014

212 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.2 cm, 0.24 kg

Originally published in 1927, this book presents a series of extracts from the novels of Charlotte and Emily Brontë. Created with the younger reader in mind, the text was intended to act as an introduction to the novels and an inducement to read them in their entirety. An editorial introduction and bibliographical details are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the writings of Charlotte and Emily Brontë.

Introduction
1. The adventure of going abroad from Vilette
2. A glimpse of the professor behind his spectacles from Villette
3. The fairy Malevola from Villette
4. A journey, and the first day at Lowood from Jane Eyre
5. Mr Rochester from Jane Eyre
6. The interrupted wedding from Jane Eyre
7. Home at last from Jane Eyre
8. The church militant from Shirley
9. The curates at tea from Shirley
10. The foundling from Wuthering Heights.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]