The most romantic literary lovers in history: Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth. Lucy Honeychurch and George Emerson. Helen Graham and Gilbert Markham. Now, all three of their classic stories are collected in one volume: the Classic Romance Collection – Volume III featuring Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion, ‘ E.M. Forster’s ‘A Room With a View, ‘ and Anne Brontë’s ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.’
First, Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion, ‘ wherein we meet Anne Elliot, whose family is in crisis. Anne’s once-wealthy father has fallen into financial ruin and they are forced to rent their estate and move to more modest accommodations. What’s more, the family that moves into the house is that of Captain Wentworth, whom Anne rejected as a suitor years before due to his lack of prospects but who has now risen in the military ranks to become wealthy and prosperous. Anne, now twenty-seven, feels that she is past her prime and that her marriage prospects are dim. Or…are they?
Then, we have E.M. Forster’s ‘A Room With a View, ‘ featuring the beautiful young Englishwoman Lucy Honeychurch who – on a trip to Italy – encounters and becomes enamored with the free-thinking and handsome George Emerson. Will Lucy marry the society-approved Cecil Vyse…or follow her heart?
Finally, we have ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, ‘ Anne Brontë’s wildly successful and best-known novel. It tells the story of Helen Graham, a young woman who is courted by and marries the spoiled and self-involved Arthur Huntingdon, a charming suitor but a disastrous and cruel husband. Helen is pressed by her would-be suitor Gilbert Markham to abandon her husband and run away with him but…her devotion to her horrible husband forbids it.
Three classic novels of love, drama and romance collected together for the first time, these books are presented in their original and unabridged format.
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Anne Brontë (1820-1849) was an English novelist and poet and the youngest of a trio of legendary writers who became known as ‘the Brontë sisters.’ Each of the three siblings managed to create novels that would become classics of English literature: Charlotte’s ‘Jane Eyre, ‘ Emily’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ and Anne’s ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.’ The youngest of six children born to clergyman Patrick Brontë and his wife Maria, Anne was home-schooled after two of her older sisters died of tuberculosis which they were believed to have acquired while attending the Clergy Daughter’s School. The four surviving siblings, Branwell, Emily, Anne and Charlotte, created an imaginary world called ‘Glass Town, ‘ and would each contribute poems, stories and geographical details of this mythical place to help them escape the difficulties and isolation of their childhood and this early, escapist writing would plant the seeds for their later literary success. At the time, the idea of publishing a female author was frowned upon, thus the sisters created a pseudonymous trio of brothers – Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily) and Acton (Anne) Bell – in order to get their books into print. Anne actually completed two full novels during her brief career: ‘Agnes Grey’ and ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, ‘ but the enjoyment of their literary success was short-lived. The family suffered the deaths of Branwell, Emily and Anne in just a few short months in late 1848/early 1949 (the latter two of tuberculosis) and Charlotte herself, while struggling through her first, difficult pregnancy, died in 1854 at the age of thirty-eight. Few families in history have produced as many literary powerhouses as the Brontë sisters and their works have been adapted numerous times for the stage and screen.
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