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Agnes Grey
- Author
- Anne Brontë
- Narrator
- Wanda McCaddon
- Publisher
- Craig Black
- Publish Date
- 1 January 2006
- Run Time
- 6 hours 28 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction
What to expect
Written when she was twenty-six, Agnes Grey is Anne Brontë's first novel. It tells the story of a rector's daughter who has to earn her living as a governess when her family enters a financial crisis. Drawing directly from her own experiences, Anne Brontë set out to describe the immense pressures that the governess' life involved: the frustration, the isolation, and the insensitive and cruel treatment on the part of employers and their families.
Mature, insightful, and edged with a quiet irony, this debut displays a keen sense of moral responsibility and sharp eye for bourgeois attitudes and behavior—and the corrosive power of wealth.
Critics Review
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“The most perfect prose narrative in English letters.”
George Moore, novelist
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“Anne Brontë attacks her problem with a freedom and audacity before which her sisters boldest enterprises seem cowardly and restrained…Her behavior is revolutionary.”
May Sinclair, novelist and suffragist
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“Agnes Grey is a charming novel, full of fine character painting and strongly marked by the exquisite development and analysis of the female heart…Agnes Grey, the heroine, herself, is one of the most vigorous and truthful drawings of character, one of the finest pieces of pen-limning that we have encountered anywhere.”
Graham’s Magazine (1850)
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“I should like to give it to every family with a governess and shall read it through again when I have a governess to remind me to be human.”
Lady Amberly
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[McCaddon] makes the young protagonist come to life in her nuanced first-person reading; her crisp and educated voice conveying the narrator’s energy and persistent optimism, while renderings of Agnes’ masters, mistresses, and young charges show them for the uncouth bullies that they actually are, despite their superior airs and flaunted gentility.
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Details
- Author
- Anne Brontë
- Narrator
- Wanda McCaddon
- Duration
- 6 hours 28 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 January 2006
- ISBN
- 9781481558037
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Craig Black
- Genre
- Classic fiction
Synopsis
Written when she was twenty-six, Agnes Grey is Anne Bront├½'s first novel. It tells the story of a rector's daughter who has to earn her living as a governess when her family enters a financial crisis. Drawing directly from her own experiences, Anne Bront├½ set out to describe the immense pressures that the governess' life involved: the frustration, the isolation, and the insensitive and cruel treatment on the part of employers and their families.Mature, insightful, and edged with a quiet irony, this debut displays a keen sense of moral responsibility and sharp eye for bourgeois attitudes and behavior—and the corrosive power of wealth.
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