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Shirley

by Charlotte Bronte

ISBN: 0140430954
ISBN-13: 9780140430950
Format: Paperback

Summary

This 1859 novel, set during the Luddite riots, is centered on the character of Robert Moore, a mill-owner who, despite the outrage of his workers, introduces new machinery at his mill-an act that ends in violence. In an effort to recoup his losses, Moore courts Shirley Keeldar, an heiress, despite his love for his cousin Caroline, who is poor but who returns his feeling. Shirley, however, is not to be bought; she secretly loves Moore's impoverished brother, Louis, the family tutor. SHIRLEY is Charlotte Brontë's only overt work of social criticism, a protest against both the insensitivity of the mill-owners and the subservient position of women in the mid-1800's. The novel is more in the tradition of Brontë's friend Elizabeth Gaskell, whose fiction was frequently set against the background of the Industrial Revolution and its effects on rural workers.

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published date: 1974
Size: 4.5 x 7.25 inches
Weight: 0.65 pounds
Pages: 622

Publisher's Notes

Romantic hope and the denial of feeling are the focus of this historical novel set in England at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

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Paperback Reprint - Penguin USA (1974) - from $1.00
Hardcover - Lightning Source Inc (2004) - from $60.76

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Charlotte BrontÃ«; Editor-Andrew Hook; Editor-Judith Hook; Introduction-Judith Hook

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