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Herausgeber: GIANLUCA
Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
Sprache: Englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

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Agnes Gray is the first novel by the British writer Anne Brontë. The novel is written in the first person, and tells the story of Agnes Gray, the youngest of two sisters in a family struck by an unexpected economic collapse, which does not weigh on parents leaving their home to perform the work of governess at rich bourgeois families. The educational experiences lived at the first Bloomfields and then Murray, the reflections on the difficult condition of his governing status, the description of the worldly and vacuous environment in which most of the narration takes place, paint a "microcosm of Victorian society", read through the moral convictions of the author.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER I - THE PARSONAGE

CHAPTER II - FIRST LESSONS IN THE ART OF INSTRUCTION

CHAPTER III - A FEW MORE LESSONS

CHAPTER IV - THE GRANDMAMMA

CHAPTER V - THE UNCLE

CHAPTER VI - THE PARSONAGE AGAIN

CHAPTER VII - HORTON LODGE

CHAPTER VIII - THE “COMING OUT”

CHAPTER IX - THE BALL

CHAPTER X - THE CHURCH

CHAPTER XI - THE COTTAGERS

CHAPTER XII - THE SHOWER

CHAPTER XIII - THE PRIMROSES

CHAPTER XIV - THE RECTOR

CHAPTER XV - THE WALK

CHAPTER XVI - THE SUBSTITUTION

CHAPTER XVII - CONFESSIONS

CHAPTER XVIII - MIRTH AND MOURNING

CHAPTER XIX - THE LETTER

CHAPTER XX - THE FAREWELL

CHAPTER XXI - THE SCHOOL

CHAPTER XXII - THE VISIT

CHAPTER XXIII - THE PARK

CHAPTER XXIV - THE SANDS

CHAPTER XXV - CONCLUSION

Agnes Grey

Anne Bronte

First digital edition 2017 by Gianluca Ruffini

CHAPTER I - THE PARSONAGE

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few fictitious names, I do not fear to venture; and will candidly lay before the public what I would not disclose to the most intimate friend.

My father was a clergyman of the north of England, who was deservedly respected by all who knew him; and, in his younger days, lived pretty comfortably on the joint income of a small incumbency and a snug little property of his own. My mother, who married him against the wishes of her friends, was a squire’s daughter, and a woman of spirit. In vain it was represented to her, that if she became the poor parson’s wife, she must relinquish her carriage and her lady’s-maid, and all the luxuries and elegancies of affluence; which to her were little less than the necessaries of life. A carriage and a lady’s-maid were great conveniences; but, thank heaven, she had feet to carry her, and hands to minister to her own necessities. An elegant house and spacious grounds were not to be despised; but she would rather live in a cottage with Richard Grey than in a palace with any other man in the world.

Finding arguments of no avail, her father, at length, told the lovers they might marry if they pleased; but, in so doing, his daughter would forfeit every fraction of her fortune. He expected this would cool the ardour of both; but he was mistaken. My father knew too well my mother’s superior worth not to be sensible that she was a valuable fortune in herself: and if she would but consent to embellish his humble hearth he should be happy to take her on any terms; while she, on her part, would rather labour with her own hands than be divided from the man she loved, whose happiness it would be her joy to make, and who was already one with her in heart and soul. So, her fortune went to swell the purse of a wiser sister, who had married a rich nabob; and she, to the wonder and compassionate regret of all who knew her, went to bury herself in the homely village parsonage among the hills of -. And yet, in spite of all this, and in spite of my mother’s high spirit and my father’s whims, I believe you might search all England through, and fail to find a happier couple.

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