4.0(4)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Brontë (1848), is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a slightly darker work than her first novel Agnes Grey, focusing on dashed dreams and frustrated hopes.

A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. She lives there under an assumed name, Helen Graham, and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert Markham discovers her dark secrets. This passionate novel of betrayal is set within a moral framework tempered by Anne's optimistic belief in universal salvation.

Originally published in June of 1848, it challenged the prevailing morals of the time; a critic went so far as to pronounce it "utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls."

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is mainly considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels. May Sinclair, in 1913, said that the slamming of Helen's bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England. In escaping from her husband, she violates not only social conventions, but also English law.

Importantly, this recording is based on the original 1848 Newby edition, not on the later, badly-mutilated version that mystifyingly continues to be the basis for modern editions advertised as “unabridged.” The novel had already been suppressed after Anne’s death by her sister Charlotte but received an even more serious injustice in 1854 when publisher Thomas Hodgson excised over sixteen thousand words, dozens of “unladylike” profanities, and numerous descriptions of dissolute male behavior, turning the Hodgson edition into a pale shadow of Anne Brontë’s original, visceral work as here presented.

Unabridged, full text version. TRT (Total Running Time): 17 hours, 4 min.

Anne Brontë (1820-1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. She also wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters under the pseudonym Acton Bell.

Anne was the youngest of the Bronte siblings, born in 1820. Like her sisters she wrote under a pename: Acton Bell. Agnes Grey was published in 1847 and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848. She died shortly after this in 1849, aged just 29 years old.

Anne preferred a more realistic style to the romanticism of her sisters, basing her first novel on her own experiences as a Governess.

Anne Brontë shows an equal talent to her sisters; her novels are gripping and realistic, but inevitably overshadowed by the more dramatic romanticism of Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights.


Författare:

Uppläsare:

Längd:

  • 382 sidor

Språk:

Engelska


4.0

4 recensioner

Klara

2021-04-13

Boken är bra men denna uppläsning är lite tråkig.

För att skriva en recension måste du ladda ner appen


  1. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Anne Brontë

    audiobookbook
  2. The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters : A Timeless Collection of Passion and Power

    Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë

    book
  3. Agnes Grey

    Anne Brontë

    audiobookbook
  4. The Greatest Historical Novels of All Time : 70 Novels in One Edition: Love Through the Ages – From Ancient Egypt to the Roaring 30s

    Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Henry James, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Guy De Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Edith Wharton, Maria Edgeworth, Henry Fielding, Anthony Trollope, Alexandre Dumas, Mary Wollstonecraft, Louis Hémon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Makepeace Thackeray, Grace Livingston Hill, Gilbert Parker, Fanny Fern, Georg Ebers, Fanny Burney, Mary Hays, Robert Williams Buchanan, Mary Angela Dickens, Madame La Fayette, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D. K. Broster, Sabine Baring-Gould, Eliza Haywood, Leo Tolstoy, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Lady Sydney Morgan, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Olifant, María Ruiz de Burton, Lady Charlotte Bury, Philip Meadows Taylor

    book
  5. 100 Mystery Classics of World Literature

    Josephine Tey, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Buchan, Edgar Allan Poe, G.K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Henry James, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Walter Scott, Daniel Defoe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Edgar Wallace, R Austin Freeman, Anna Katharine Green, Ethel Lina White, Sapper, Arthur Morrison, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Robert William Chambers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, J. S. Fletcher, Richard Marsh, Annie Haynes, Alexandre Dumas, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Émile Gaboriau, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, H.P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, Guy De Maupassant, Frances Noyes Hart, Theodore Dreiser, Armitage Trail, EW Hornung, Earl Derr Biggers, S. S. van Dine, Jeffery Farnol

    book
  6. Agnes Grey

    Anne Brontë

    book
  7. Agnes Grey

    Anne Brontë

    audiobookbook
  8. Agnes Grey

    Anne Brontë

    audiobookbook
  9. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Anne Brontë

    audiobookbook
  10. Agnes Grey

    Anne Brontë

    book
  11. Jane Austen y Hermanas Brontë - Novelas Completas : Orgullo y Prejuicio, Sentido y Sensibilidad, Emma, Persuasión, Jane Eyre, Cumbres borrascosas, La inquilina de Wildfell Hall

    Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë

    book