Charlotte Brontë: A Life
Autor Claire Harmanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 apr 2016
'There was no possibility of taking a walk that day . . .' With these words Charlotte Brontë began Jane Eyre and changed English literature irrevocably.
Claire Harman's landmark biography provides a bold new view of one of Britain's best loved writers, uncovering an inner life that touched the furthest extremes of human emotion.
Harman shows us an intense and troubled young woman from an astonishingly creative family, whose early works were produced in total secrecy. Struggling against the conventional limitations of both life and literature, Charlotte created a new kind of heroine which both shocked and inspired her Victorian contemporaries. Love, loss, ambition and heartbreak: the anonymous author poured everything into her ground-breaking books, but lived it first.
'Harman [is] a master-storyteller in her own right. Her account of Bronte's life is a level-headed, highly readable and always intelligent. A delight from start to finish' Sunday Times
'Subtle, measured. Full of insight into Bronte's fiery intellect as well as the tragic intensity of her experience' Helen Dunmore, Observer
'Three rounds of applause... a superb retelling of Charlotte's story' Mark Bostridge, Spectator
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241963661
ISBN-10: 0241963664
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241963664
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii de la cititorii Books Express
Maria Nastasia a dat nota:
How often do we find an author who can make your heart bleed with tenderness and compassion for a character while only a few chapters later, your greatest desire is to thrash said character in the throes of anger. And the remarkable thing is that while you are wanting to hurt him in some measure to convey your dislike for his dastardly deeds, still inside and trying to lure its way to the forefront of your emotion is the initial tenderness and compassion. Does that make any sense at all? Wuthering Heights is a tale of despair, revenge and of love. It is a Gothic novel. Knowing this going in, I still had forgotten the extent of the darkness and how much despair fill its pages. It follows the life of orphaned Heathcliff and his adoptive family (the Earnshaws) and his revenge against the two families (the Earnshaws/Lintons) who have wronged him and his love/hate relationship with Catherine Earnshaw. And make no mistake that these two do love each other and often, hatred and anger is temporarily their emotion of choice.
Notă biografică
Claire
Harman
is
the
award-winning
biographer
of
Sylvia
Townsend
Warner
(1989),
Fanny
Burney
(2000)
and
Robert
Louis
Stevenson
(2005)
and
the
author
of
the
best-sellingJane's
Fame:
How
Jane
Austen
Conquered
the
World(2009).
She
writes
regularly
for
the
literary
press
on
both
sides
of
the
Atlantic
and
was
elected
a
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Society
of
Literature
in
2006.
Her most recent work isCharlotte Bronte: A Life.
Her most recent work isCharlotte Bronte: A Life.
Recenzii
Harman's
sane,
unshowy
re-telling
is
exactly
right
for
the
bicentenary
nextApril.The
result
is
a
retooled
classic
biographical
narrative,
shipshape
and
serviceable
for
the
next
200
years
Finely judged and authoritative
Elegantly written, consistently perceptive...[Harman] succeeds in bringing Charlotte back to life in all her spiky vulnerability
This is a comprehensive biography to enjoy and admire. Harman writes well and she is a fine and sensitive critic
Harman... portrays Bronte's complexity and dark genius inelegant prose with deep human sympathy
Superb retelling of Charlotte's story (...) admirably concise
Harman tells [Charlotte's] story withquick wit, a sharp sympathy, and a fire and fury of her own
Full of pleasing and piquant detail,scraps of passing recollection assembled from the various lives and letters in which the Brontes featured and from which we might reconstruct their world
Elegant, sensitive, beautifully paced and moving. [Claire Harman] has... produced a work that is affirmative, edifying, inspiring and humane
Revelatory (...) adds freshness and texture to her account with original speculations.As someone who once wrote a book about the Brontës' afterlives, few people can have read as many biographies of them as I have.I thought I was Brontë-ed out, but reading this book-which will be equally accessible to someone coming to Charlotte for the first time-has drawn me back in
Three rounds of applause...for Claire Harman's superb retelling of Charlotte's story
[An] excellent new bicentennial biography....Ms. Harman writes with warmth and a fine understanding of Ms. Brontë's literary significance. Above all, she is a storyteller, with a sense of pace and timing, relish for a good scene and a wry sense of humour
A vigorous new biography (...) Harman does a splendid job
An immensely readable biography
A substantial biography (...) that lets the disparate pieces speak for themselves
Harman renders her daring novels fresh, interweaving what shocked critics then with what surprises us still
Prepare to suffer similar time-loss at the hands of Harman, Brontë's most recent biographer and a master storyteller in her own right. Level-headed, highly readable and always intelligent, Harman's account of Brontë's life and work isa delight from start to finish
A subtle, measured biography, full of insight into Bronte's fiery intellect as well as the tragic intensity of her experience
Harman brings a fresh eye to many of the same papers studied by Gaskell to compile herCharlotte Brontë: A Life.The Gothic atmosphere and heart-breaking details remain, butHarman achieves a great feat by making the story seem new again
Finely judged and authoritative
Elegantly written, consistently perceptive...[Harman] succeeds in bringing Charlotte back to life in all her spiky vulnerability
This is a comprehensive biography to enjoy and admire. Harman writes well and she is a fine and sensitive critic
Harman... portrays Bronte's complexity and dark genius inelegant prose with deep human sympathy
Superb retelling of Charlotte's story (...) admirably concise
Harman tells [Charlotte's] story withquick wit, a sharp sympathy, and a fire and fury of her own
Full of pleasing and piquant detail,scraps of passing recollection assembled from the various lives and letters in which the Brontes featured and from which we might reconstruct their world
Elegant, sensitive, beautifully paced and moving. [Claire Harman] has... produced a work that is affirmative, edifying, inspiring and humane
Revelatory (...) adds freshness and texture to her account with original speculations.As someone who once wrote a book about the Brontës' afterlives, few people can have read as many biographies of them as I have.I thought I was Brontë-ed out, but reading this book-which will be equally accessible to someone coming to Charlotte for the first time-has drawn me back in
Three rounds of applause...for Claire Harman's superb retelling of Charlotte's story
[An] excellent new bicentennial biography....Ms. Harman writes with warmth and a fine understanding of Ms. Brontë's literary significance. Above all, she is a storyteller, with a sense of pace and timing, relish for a good scene and a wry sense of humour
A vigorous new biography (...) Harman does a splendid job
An immensely readable biography
A substantial biography (...) that lets the disparate pieces speak for themselves
Harman renders her daring novels fresh, interweaving what shocked critics then with what surprises us still
Prepare to suffer similar time-loss at the hands of Harman, Brontë's most recent biographer and a master storyteller in her own right. Level-headed, highly readable and always intelligent, Harman's account of Brontë's life and work isa delight from start to finish
A subtle, measured biography, full of insight into Bronte's fiery intellect as well as the tragic intensity of her experience
Harman brings a fresh eye to many of the same papers studied by Gaskell to compile herCharlotte Brontë: A Life.The Gothic atmosphere and heart-breaking details remain, butHarman achieves a great feat by making the story seem new again