THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL

ISBN: 9780140620436

作者: Anne Bronte

出版社: 中图总公司

出版年: 1998-10

页数: 384

定价: 15.00元

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This volume completes the acclaimed Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Bront?s. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bront?'s second (and last) novel, was published in June 1848, less than a year before her death. It is the sombre account of the breakdown of a marriage in the face of alcoholism and infidelity. Writing with a power not usually associated with the youngest of the Bront? sisters, Anne portrays the decline of an aristocratic husband whose drunken

excesses and domestic violence force his loving wife into a reluctant rebellion. The novel enjoyed a modest success that led its publisher, the unscrupulous T. C. Newby, to issue a 'Second Edition' less than two months later. The present volume offers a text based on the collation of the first edition with the second (really a re-issue of the first, with a few corrections). The introduction details the work's composition and early printing history, including its first publication in America; and the text is fully annotated. Appendices record the substantive variants in the

first English and American editions, and discuss the author's belief in the doctrine of universal salvation.