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Branwell: a novel of the Brontë brother

✍ Scribed by Douglas A. Martin

Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Weight
121 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1593765983

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✦ Synopsis

For readers of Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles , this genre-bending exploration of the tragic figure of Branwell Brontë and the dismal, dazzling landscape that inspired his sisters to greatness is now available in a new edition with an introduction by Darcey Steinke.

Branwell Brontë--brother of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne--has a childhood marked by tragedy and the weight of expectations. After the early deaths of his mother and a beloved older sister, he is kept away from school and tutored at home by his father, a curate, who rests all his ambitions for his children on his only son. Branwell grows up isolated in his family's parsonage on the moors, learning Latin and Greek, being trained in painting, and collaborating on endless stories and poems with his sisters. Yet while his sisters go on to write Wuthering Heights , Jane Eyre , and Agnes Grey , Branwell wanders from job to job,...

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