com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. I particularly liked his advocation to future students of Charlotte Brontë to take the more radical and revisionist approach of addressing seriously the view that her work is predicated on her religious beliefs with perhaps a religious motive rather than persist with a more secularising critique. If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Da die vielen Schnipsel der Bronte-Hinterlassenschaft immer noch durchforstet und mühsam gelesen werden (ein Projekt der Bronte-Society), kamen gerade in den letzten zehn Jahre viele interessante Dinge zu Tage, auch manchmal kleine Einzelheiten aus dem Alltag, die Sutherland immer mal wieder einstreut, auch um die Familie Bronte zu entmystifizieren.

For fans of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, here is a light-hearted miscellany freighted with a working lifetime's scholarly expertise. If you’d like to file an allegation of infringement, you’ll need to follow the process described in our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy. Charlotte I believe was not portrayed in a good light and yes I know that she could have destroyed a lot of her sisters’ works etc but none of this is proven. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Distinguished literary critic John Sutherland takes an idiosyncratic look at the world of the Brontës, from the bumps on Charlotte’s head to the nefarious origins of Mr Rochester’s fortune, by way of astral telephony, letter-writing dogs, an exploding peat bog, and much, much more. Also features ‘Jane Eyre abbreviated’ by John Crace, author of the Guardian’s ‘Digested Reads’ column – read Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece in five minutes! Neuware -Did Charlotte Brontë take opium Did the Reverend Brontë carry a loaded pistol What, precisely, does 'wuthering' mean Distinguished literary critic John Sutherland takes an idiosyncratic look at the world of the Brontës, from the bumps on Charlotte's head to the nefarious origins of Mr Rochester's fortune, by way of astral telephony, letterwriting dogs, an exploding peat bog, and much, much more. The imprint was DC’s home for mature tales that were often horror-themed or otherwise dark in nature. I really liked how the book was laid out and that it was short snippets of information which were easy to digest and engaging.

John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus at University College London and an eminent scholar in the field of Victorian fiction. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. This short yet informative book by Sutherland exhibits his deep knowledge of literature and his wit. Sutherland is right up-to-the-minute in his refusal to minimise phenomena like ghosts and hauntings in the Brontës' life and work.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). With his reputation for intensely close reading of Victorian literature, John Sutherland explores the Brontes' lives, their characters, their novels and poems, and the ways in which we interpret them today - and above all he digs out those unexpected nuggets of fact that illuminate their perennially popular works. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce.

Without these technologies, things like personalised recommendations, your account preferences, or localisation may not work correctly. Deshalb ist es besonders schade, dass Sutherland so ein paar kleine Dinge doch anscheinend noch nicht recherchiert hat, z.When I was waiting for a student to arrive this week I picked up the book and started reading and to be honest I was hooked. With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading. Distinguished literary critic John Sutherland takes an idiosyncratic look at the world of the Brontës, from the bumps on Charlotte's head to the nefarious origins of Mr Rochester's fortune, by way of astral telephony, letterwriting dogs, an exploding peat bog, and much, much more.