Anne Bronte The Complete Poems Of

BRONTE, Anne, SHORTER, Clement (edit) & HATFIELD, C. W (intro): The Complete poems of Anne Bronte Edited By Clement Shorter, NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED, with a Bibliographical Introduction By C. W. Hatfield, Hodder & Stoughton 1920
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First Collected Edition of Anne Brontes Poems. REVIEW COPY with "For Review" stamped in small manner on half title. Quarter cloth with grey paper boards. NO CHIPPING & NO SPLITTING to boards. Small graze at middle of spine. Dustiness to boards with wear to extremities & corners. Internally VERY CLEAN. Ink name on UNSPLIT ORIGINAL endpaper. Some light dusting. TIGHT textblock. NO LOOSE & NO MISSING leaves. First Edition Thus Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights, New York Bantam Classic 1981 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0553212583
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First published, 1847. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "'My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be...Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure...but as my own being.' Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, who died a year after its publication, at the age of thirty. A brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that is stronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of metaphysical passion, in which heaven and hell, nature and society, are powerfully juxtaposed. Unique, mystical, with a timeless appeal, it has become a classic of English literature. / Emily Jane Bronte was the most solitary member of a unique, tightly-knit, English provincial family. Born in 1818, she shared the parsonage of the town of Haworth, Yorkshire, with her older sister, Charlotte, her brother, Branwell, her younger sister, Anne, and her father, The Reverend Patrick Bronte. All five were poets and writers; all but Branwell would publish at least one book. Fantasy was the Bronte children's one relief from the rigors of religion and the bleakness of life in an impoverished region. They invented a series of imaginary kingdoms and constructed a whole library of journals, stories, poems, and plays around their inhabitants. Emily's special province was a kingdom she called Gondal, whose romantic heroes and exiles owed much to the poems of Byron. Brief stays at several boarding schools were the sum of her experiences outside Haworth until 1842, when she entered a school in Brussels with her sister Charlotte. After a year of study and teaching there, they felt qualified to announce the opening of a school in their own home, but could not attract a single pupil. In 1845 Charlotte Bronte came across a manuscript volume of her sister's poems. She knew at once, she later wrote, that they were 'not at all like poetry women generally write - they had a peculiar music - wild, melancholy, and elevating.' At her sister's urging, Emily's poems, along with Anne's and Charlotte's, were published pseudonymously in 1846. An almost complete silence greeted this volume, but the three sisters, buoyed by the fact of publication, immediately began to write novels. Emily's effort was Wuthering Heights; appearing in 1847 it was treated at first as a lesser work by Charlotte, whose Jane Eyre had already been published to great acclaim. Emily Bronte's name did not emerge from behind her pseudonym of Ellis Bell until the second edition of her novel appeared in 1850. In the meantime, tragedy had struck the Bronte family. In September of 1848 Branwell had succumbed to a life of dissipation. By December, after a brief illness, Emily too was dead; her sister Anne would die the next year. Wuthering Heights, Emily's only novel, was just beginning to be understood as the wild and singular work of genius that it is. 'Stronger than a man,' wrote Charlotte, 'Simpler than a child, her nature stood alone.'" - Publisher. 30th printing Mass Market Paperback 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; 30th printing

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Emily, Anne and Charlotte Bronte: The Heather Edition 6 volumes complete: Villette, Shirley, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, and The Professor, Poems and Miscellanea, Allan Wingate, London, 1949.

6 volume set, original purple cloth with gilt titling to green label, slight sunning to all spines, a clean and unmarked set in fine condition. Remains of glasssine wrappers. * There will be additional postage due to weight [3kg approx]

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ELLIS and ACTON BELL, [pseuds. BRONTE (E) and BRONTE (A)]. CURRER BELL [pseud. BRONTE (C)], intro.: Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. A New Edition, Revised, with a Biographical Notice of the Authors, a Selection from their Literary Remains, and a Preface, by Currer Bell. [Second Edition]. IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING, Smith Elder & Co., 1851 [1850]

2 works in one vol., 8vo., Second Edition, endpapers very lightly age-marked; original chocolate cloth, sides elaborately blocked and lettered in blind, backstrip blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, uncut, hinges starting but binding entirely sound, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in wholly unrestored publisher's binding, the whole now preserved in custom-made solander case. With the contemporary binder's ticket of Westley of London mounted on rear paste-down. Complete with the review leaf before first half-title. This edition was published in December 1850 but the title date of 'a large proportion' of copies was altered to 1851 to render them more suitable for the forthcoming year (see Wise, p. 104). This is evidently a slightly later issue, in Westley's chocolate cloth rather than the 'claret' given by Wise, and with the 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear dated December 1855. 'This new edition of 'Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey' is a book of very considerable literary importance. Not only does it contain (pp. vii-xvi) Charlotte's 'Biographical Notice' of her two sisters, together with (pp. xvii-xxiv) a Preface to 'Wuthering Heights'; it also includes a series of poems by both Emily and Anne which appeared in its pages for the first ime' (Wise, p.104). A SPLENDID IF SLIGHTLY AGED COPY OF THE EXTREMELY SCARCE SECOND EDITION IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. NCBEL III p.866; Wise 2 (pp.103-106)

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