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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Living an isolated life in their strict father's parsonage out on the English moors, the Brontë siblings have always been inseparable, their vivid imaginations actually transporting them into their created worlds, but when Branwell begins to slip into madness and the sisters feel their real lives slipping away, they must weigh the cost of their powerful imaginations, even as their characters refuse to let them go.
Author
Language
English
Description
Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four escape from a harsh reality: Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to a dangerous boarding school, a school they might not return from. But on this Beastliest Day, the day Anne and Branwell walk their sisters to the train station, something...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A debut novel about the last remaining descendant of the Brontës who discovers that her recently deceased father has left her a treasure hunt that may lead to the long-rumored secret literary estate"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without a book or play or monograph or film about the Brontës. Each generation has re-imagined Charlotte, Emily, and Anne in ways that reflect changing visions—of the role of the woman writer or of sexuality or of the very concept of personality. Charlotte Brontë has been seen as domestic saint, as sex-starved hysteric, as ambitious literary careerist. Her sister Emily has been furnished with apocryphal lovers...
12) The lost child
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Fist edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caryl Phillips' The Lost Child is a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its center is Monica Johnson--cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner--and her bitter struggle to raise her sons in the shadow of the wild moors of the north of England. Phillips intertwines her modern narrative with the childhood of one of literature's most enigmatic lost boys, as...
13) Glass Town
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
211 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The entrancing story of the Brontë sisters' childhood imaginary world. Four children: Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne have invented a world so real and vivid that they can step right into it. But can reality be enough, when fiction is so enticing? And what happens to an imaginary world when its creators grow up? Plots are spiraling, characters are getting wildly out of hand, and a great deal of ink is being spilt... Welcome to Glass Town"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
234 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the life of the Bronte sisters and the collaboration that led to "Jane Eyre," describing the tragedies that shaped their lives, Charlotte's love affair with a married man, and the bond between the girls.
16) Daphne
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
399 p.
Language
English
17) The Brontës
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 1003 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Brontë family, exploring the relationships among the three sisters (all noted nineteenth-century authors) and with other family members. Based on manuscripts, letters, and newspapers from that time period.
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