Über dieses Buch

💼 Two women. One industrial war. And a challenge to Victorian norms.

In Shirley, Charlotte Brontë trades Gothic romance for political fire—tackling class conflict, the role of women in society, and the upheaval of industrial England 🏭📚.

Set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings, this powerful novel explores the lives of Caroline Helstone and the titular Shirley—two women navigating love, loss, and revolution. More socially conscious than Jane Eyre but equally rich in emotion, Shirley is a literary treasure often overlooked and ready for rediscovery.

Why readers value this bold classic:

✔ "A headstrong heroine ahead of her time."

✔ "Historical fiction meets feminist critique—brilliantly."

✔ Ideal for lovers of literature, social justice, and strong female leads ✊📖

This edition includes:

🖼️ Original Victorian-style illustrations

📜 Contextual notes and historical essays

📱 Kindle-enhanced layout for easy reading

📥 Download Shirley today and discover Brontë's bold, socially engaged novel that still speaks powerfully to modern readers.

Starte noch heute mit diesem Buch für € 0

  • Hole dir während der Testphase vollen Zugriff auf alle Bücher in der App
  • Keine Verpflichtungen, jederzeit kündbar
Jetzt kostenlos testen
Mehr als 52 000 Menschen haben Nextory im App Store und auf Google Play 5 Sterne gegeben.

  1. 100 Klassiker der Romantik - Meisterwerke, die man kennen muss : Liebes-, Bildungs- und Gesellschaftsromane der europäischen Literaturgeschichte

    Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, D. H. Lawrence, Fjodor Dostojewski, William Shakespeare, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Margaret Mitchell, Charles Dickens, L.M. Montgomery, Eugenie Marlitt, Wilhelmine Heimburg, Elisabeth Bürstenbinder, Stendhal, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Walter Scott, Guy De Maupassant, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Leo Tolstoi, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Rudyard Kipling, Gustave Flaubert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prosper Mérimée, Edith Wharton, Lena Christ, François-René de Chateaubriand, Stefan Zweig, Alexander Sergejewitsch Puschkin, Ida Boy-Ed, Arthur Schnitzler, Anatole France, Johanna Spyri, George Eliot, Gaston Leroux, Nataly von Eschstruth, Gottfried von Straßburg, Sophie Mereau, Caroline von Wolzogen, Benedikte Naubert, Henry De Stacpoole, Levin Schücking

  2. 1.8

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Brontë

  3. #1

    Il trovatello

    Charlotte Brontë

  4. 1. Okt.

    El profesor

    Charlotte Brontë

  5. Neu

    Women Who Shaped the Novel : 15 Timeless Classics by Austen, the Brontës, Gaskell and Alcott

    Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Louisa May Alcott

  6. Neu

    Jane Eyre ou Les Mémoires d'une institutrice

    Charlotte Brontë

  7. Neu

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Brontë

  8. Neu

    Novels and Poems (The Brontë Sisters) : The Complete Brontë Sisters

    Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë

  9. Neu

    50 Masterpieces You Have to Read : Volume One - An Essential Library of World Literature

    Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac, Henri Barbusse, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, Kate Chopin, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexandre Dumas, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gustave Flaubert, E. M. Forster, H. Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Heinlein, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, H.P. Lovecraft, Herman Melville, John Milton, Robert Musil, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Leo Tolstoy

  10. Neu

    Women Who Shaped the Novel : 15 Timeless Classics by Jane Austen, the Brontë Sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell and Louisa May Alcott

    Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Louisa May Alcott

  11. Neu

    Women Who Shaped the Novel : 15 Timeless Classics by Jane Austen, the Brontë Sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell and Louisa May Alcott

    Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Louisa May Alcott

  12. Neu

    Women Who Shaped the Novel : 15 Timeless Classics by Jane Austen, the Brontë Sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell and Louisa May Alcott

    Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Louisa May Alcott