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Agnes Grey
Agnes Grey
Author: Anne Bronte
This definitive edition of Anne Bronte's first novel incorporates her unpublished manuscript revisions, and incudes full textual apparatus and explanatory notes.
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ISBN-13: 9780754055372
ISBN-10: 075405537X
Publication Date: 1/2003
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Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Book Type: Audio CD
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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I don't think I would have managed to get through the printed version of this book but the audio version made the story far more accessible. In fact, it was downright charming and very funny at times. Bronte's description of the self-centered "upper crust" people the protagonist worked seemed -- as the British say -- "spot on." Granted, the romantic plot seems trite and overwrought by today's standards (don't they all?). You feel like just screaming at everyone to "For heaven's sake -- just TELL him how you feel!!!" But they just didn't do that back then.

Anyway, the story is nice and the narrator was terrific. If, like me, you'd like to expose yourself to more of the classics, audio books are the way to go.
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Only on Chapter 3...but for a classic, it seems to move fairly quickly. I anticipate this book to be a well-worth-read.
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What a cozy read! Though the heroine goes through trials and difficulties, all is well at the end.
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This is the story of a youn girl who becomes a governess to two different wealthy families. It is about her trials and her discontent with her two wealthy families. It was slow starting but got better towards the end.


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