Agnes Grey

Name: Agnes Grey
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Author: Anne Bronte
ISBN: 9789629549329

Author: Anne Bronte

Narrator: Rachel Bavidge

Unabridged: 7 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 04/26/2010

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

From its opening sentences Agnes Grey introduces a heroine who is honest, perceptive and charming. Unfortunately, the Bloomfields, who engage her as a governess, are rather less appealing, and the incarnation of the suppressed cruelties and hypocrisies of the Victorian age. When Agnes moves to a marginally less alarming family, one of her charges sets out to disrupt her only romantic hope. Critical, satirical, direct, and honest, Agnes Grey is a fine reflection of its author.

About Anne Bronte

Anne Bronte (1820-1849), a British novelist and poet, was the youngest member of the famous Bronte literary family. She wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters, Charlotte and Emily, entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, and she is the author of the novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Anne's two novels, written in a sharp and ironic style, are completely different from the romanticism followed by her more famous sisters. She wrote in a realistic, rather than a romantic style.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on September 03, 2024

Here's the thing: I am, at heart, a lover, not a fighter. Sure, when it comes to young adult books, and to romance, and to thrillers, and to contemporaries, and to historical fiction, and to mysteries, and to...essentially anything that can be categorized as "genre fiction," you may be tempted to cal......more

Goodreads review by Meghhnaa on November 11, 2022

My Views- My incorrigible propensity for books with Biblical references and teachings, decoyed me into this precious work of gracious civility in the midst of hardships! “Agnes Grey”, delineates, that amidst all the tormenting, hardships, lamentations and broodings, the tenets of love-laden Christ......more

Goodreads review by Henry on April 13, 2024

In 1847, Charlotte Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre, was published, her sister Emily's, book also , Wuthering Heights and finally the 3rd sister, Anne's, Agnes Grey . The first two became classics, the other one, until recently, almost forgotten. An autobiographical novel with a simple plot. Poor clergyman......more

Goodreads review by Katie on May 01, 2021

A brilliant Brontë, as always - historically fascinating in terms of examining the role of governesses in the 19th century, and a thoroughly moving love story besides. Thoughts on rereading - I think I enjoyed this even more. A really interesting, engaging, subtle little story.......more