Book Details
A powerful, heartfelt depiction of conflict between classes, sexes and generations, Shirley is the story of struggling, debt-ridden Robert Moore, whose decision to try and save his Yorkshire mill by sacking workers sparks a riot. When Robert considers marriage to the wealthy Shirley Keeldar to solve his financial problems, he discovers instead that both their hearts ultimately lie elsewhere.
Charlotte Brontë's strange and beautiful novel brilliantly recreates the world of ealry industrial Britain, and the shocking impact it had on the both landscape and society. It also contains,in the penniless dependent Caroline Helstone, one of most touching and engagins of all nineteenth-century portraits of women.
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Brontë, Charlotte
- ISBN13 9780141199535
- ISBN10 0141199539
- Pages 701
- Collection Penguin English Library #
- Published 2012
- Language English
Shirley
- Author Charlotte Brontë
- Publisher PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN 9780141199535
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