Tales of Angria / Angria (Imaginary place) Short stories, English.
Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Tales of Angria / Charlotte Bronte. - London : Penguin, 2010. - 517 p. ; 18 cm. - Pocket Penguin classic. .
This collection first published 2006.
Mina Laury -- Stancliffe's Hotel -- The Duke of Zamorna -- Henry Hastings -- Caroline Vernon -- The Roe Head Journal fragments.
CLASSIC FICTION. In 1834 Charlotte Bronte and her brother Branwell created the imaginary kingdom of Angria in a series of tiny handmade books. Continuing their saga some years later, the five 'novelettes' in this volume were written by Charlotte when she was in her early twenties, and depict an aristocratic beau monde in witty, racy and ironic language. She creates an exotic, scandalous atmosphere of intrigue and destructive passions, with a cast ranging from the ageing rake Northangerland and his Byronic son-in-law Zamorna, King of Angria, to Mary Percy, Zamorna's lovesick wife, and Charles Townshend, the cynical, gossipy narrator.
9780141035628
Angria (Imaginary place)--Fiction.
Short stories, English.
823/.8
Tales of Angria / Charlotte Bronte. - London : Penguin, 2010. - 517 p. ; 18 cm. - Pocket Penguin classic. .
This collection first published 2006.
Mina Laury -- Stancliffe's Hotel -- The Duke of Zamorna -- Henry Hastings -- Caroline Vernon -- The Roe Head Journal fragments.
CLASSIC FICTION. In 1834 Charlotte Bronte and her brother Branwell created the imaginary kingdom of Angria in a series of tiny handmade books. Continuing their saga some years later, the five 'novelettes' in this volume were written by Charlotte when she was in her early twenties, and depict an aristocratic beau monde in witty, racy and ironic language. She creates an exotic, scandalous atmosphere of intrigue and destructive passions, with a cast ranging from the ageing rake Northangerland and his Byronic son-in-law Zamorna, King of Angria, to Mary Percy, Zamorna's lovesick wife, and Charles Townshend, the cynical, gossipy narrator.
9780141035628
Angria (Imaginary place)--Fiction.
Short stories, English.
823/.8