

Agnes Grey
Author: Anne Bronte
Narrator: Virginia Leishman
Unabridged: 8 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 08/26/2016
Author: Anne Bronte
Narrator: Virginia Leishman
Unabridged: 8 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 08/26/2016
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.
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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
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
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