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Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë
Narrated by: Virginia Leishman
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In her daring first novel, the youngest Brontë sister drew upon her own experiences to tell the unvarnished truth about life as a governess. Like Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte was a young middle-class Victorian lady whose family fortunes had faltered. Like so many other unmarried women of the 19th century, Bronte accepted the only "respectable" employment available - and entered a world of hardship, humiliation, and loneliness. Written with a realism that shocked critics, this biting social commentary offers a sympathetic portrait of Agnes and a moving indictment of her brutish and haughty employers.

Separated from her family and friends by many miles, paid little more than subsistence wages, Agnes stands alone - both in society at large and in a household where she is neither family member nor servant.

Agnes Grey remains a landmark in the literature of social history. In addition to its challenge to the era's chauvinism and materialism, it features a first-person narrative that offers a rare opportunity to hear the voice of a Victorian working woman.

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Was für eine wunderbare Geschichte von Anna Brontë, und ein absoluter Genuss, der Sprecherin Virginia Leishman zuzuhören. Meine Empfehlung.

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Dieser Roman von Anne Brontë handelt von der Pfarrerstochter und späteren Gouvernante Agnes Grey. Er gehört zum Genre des "Gouvernantenromans", so wie beispielsweise auch "The Turn of the Screw" von Henry James. Allerdings sind hier nicht Geister, sondern sehr lebendige Menschen die Protagonisten. Miss Grey tritt im Laufe der Handlung zwei Stellungen in "bessergestellten" Haushalten an und wird Zeugin eines ihr völlig fremden Lebens. Freundschaft, Liebe und emotionale Kälte sowie jede Menge Egoismus begegnen ihr im Laufe der Geschichte, die von der Erzählerin hervorragend und in einem für mich sehr gut zu verstehenden Englisch vorgetragen wird. Eine absolute Empfehlung für alle, die klassische Literatur lieben und Autorinnen wie Jane Austen oder die Brontë Schwestern zu schätzen wissen.

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