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Agnes Grey
- Author
- Anne Brontë
- Narrator
- Aria Wilson
- Publisher
- Stream Readers
- Publish Date
- 5 August 2026
- Run Time
- 6 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Anne Brontë
- Narrator
- Aria Wilson
- Duration
- 6 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 August 2026
- ISBN
- 9786604249786
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Stream Readers
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Agnes Grey is a classic Victorian novel by Anne Brontë, offering a clear, intimate, and morally sharp portrait of a young woman's life as a governess. The story follows Agnes, the daughter of a modest family, as she leaves home to support herself and encounters the hardships, humiliations, and emotional isolation of working within wealthy households. Through Agnes's experiences with spoiled children, careless parents, class prejudice, and social indifference, the novel explores dignity, labor, faith, patience, and the quiet strength required to preserve one's principles in an unjust world. Beneath its restrained style, Agnes Grey is a powerful critique of class, education, gender expectations, and the limited choices available to women in nineteenth-century society. This Audiobook was narrated using AI-generated voice technology.
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