Tales of Angria / Charlotte Bronte.

By: Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855Material type: TextTextSeries: Pocket Penguin classicPublication details: London : Penguin, 2010Description: 517 p. ; 18 cmISBN: 9780141035628Subject(s): Angria (Imaginary place) -- Fiction | Short stories, EnglishDDC classification: 823/.8
Contents:
Mina Laury -- Stancliffe's Hotel -- The Duke of Zamorna -- Henry Hastings -- Caroline Vernon -- The Roe Head Journal fragments.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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