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Shirley / Charlotte Bronte ; edited by Herbert Rosengarten and Margaret Smith ; with an introduction and additional notes by Janet Gezari.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford world's classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Textile industry--Fiction.
- Textile industry.
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Fiction.
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.
- Women--England--Fiction.
- Women.
- Yorkshire (England)--Fiction.
- Yorkshire (England).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (611 p.)
- Edition:
- New ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Set in Yorkshire during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, this novel articulates the social realities of economic hardship, the Luddite riots, dissatisfaction with the government and an inadequate Church.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; VOLUME I; I. Levitical; II. The Waggons; III. Mr. Yorke; IV. Mr. Yorke (continued); V. Hollow's Cottage; VI. Coriolanus; VII. The Curates at Tea; VIII. Noah and Moses; IX. Briarmains; X. Old Maids; XI. Fieldhead; VOLUME II; I. Shirley and Caroline; II. Further Communications on Business; III. Shirley seeks to be Saved by Works; IV. Mr. Donne's Exodus; V. Whitsuntide; VI. The School-Feast; VII. Which the Genteel Reader is recommended to Skip, Low Persons being here Introduced; VIII. A Summer Night; IX. To-Morrow; X. Mrs. Pryor; XI. Two Lives; XII. An Evening Out; VOLUME III
- I. The Valley of the Shadow of DeathII. The West Wind Blows; III. Old Copy-Books; IV. The First Blue-Stocking; V. Phœbe; VI. Louis Moore; VII. Rushedge, a Confessional; VIII. Uncle and Niece; IX. The Schoolboy and the Wood-Nymph; X. Martin's Tactics; XI. Case of Domestic Persecution.
- Remarkable Instance of Pious Perseverance in the Discharge of Religious Duties; XII. Wherein Matters make some Progress, but not much; XIII. Written in the Schoolroom; XIV. The Winding-up
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2007.
- Description based on print version record and publisher information.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxix]-xxxi).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-192170-X
- 1-281-37139-4
- 9786611371395
- 0-19-153807-8
- OCLC:
- 476244785
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