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基本信息·出版社：Wordsworth Editions Ltd
·页码：432 页
·出版日期：1996年10月
·ISBN：1853264881
·条形码：9781853264887
·版本：第1版
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：女房客
内容简介 在线阅读本书
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Bront?, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son. Originally published in June of 1848, it challenged the prevailing morals of the time; a critic went so far as to pronounce it "utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls". It is considered to be one of the first feminist novels.
This work is a sometimes violent and brutal tale of love and betrayal, separation and reconciliation, set in the familiar Bronte landscape of bleak houses in moorland settings. This new edition is taken from the 1848 second edition of the text, with corrections made to that text.
From AudioFile
Helen Graham has taken up residence in the bleak Wildfell Hall with her young son to escape her alcoholic and philandering husband. The story is narrated both by Helen and the man who falls in love with her. Frederick Davidson and Nadia May take the roles of the storytellers, and they do an excellent job of portraying both the male and female voices. May reads Helen's diary and correspondence. May's voice is young, fresh and naive, well-suited to Helen as a young woman; the voices of the men are excellent as well. Her laughter sounds genuine, and her portrayal of drunken men is perfect. She moves the narrative along crisply, with just the right touch of drama. Davidson's voicing is also excellent, but he tends to overdramatize at times, and his tempo is just a shade too fast. The choice to use both male and female narrators was a good one, enlivening the story and underlining the differences between the sexes in Victorian England. S.S.R.
From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister
Of the three Bronte sisters, Emily and Charlotte are better known, yet it is Anne's work which carries some of the strongest feminist themes. In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall a devout young woman named Helen falls in love with a man who is handsome, but whose values are questionable; willing to believe she can alter his character, she marries him. Her marriage becomes a misery she has no power to change until she devises a bold plan to take control. Her story comes through two voices - her own and that of Gilbert Markham, a man who falls in love with Helen later in her life - and is told through journals and letters written over a period of time. Because of the privacy and immediacy of these narratives, the reader sees personal changes and attitudes Helen and Gilbert are often unaware of at the time: we witness Helen's first naive protestations of passion for her husband and follow her through her eventual disillusionment; we recognize Gilbert's early, unconscious egotism. While the plot continues and mysteries are unraveled, what Helen and Gilbert say - as well as what they don't say - provides another story to follow, which reinforces Anne Bronte's indictment of the sexual double standards of nineteenth-century Britain.
Book Dimension
Height (mm) 198 Width (mm) 126
作者简介 Anne Bront?
Anne Bront? (January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest of the Bront? literary family.
She was born in the village of Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the last of six siblings. Anne's mother, Maria Branwell Bront?, died of cancer a year later in 1821, after the family had moved to Haworth where her father, Patrick Bront?, was appointed perpetual curate. While she was a child her two eldest siblings, Maria and Elizabeth died of tuberculosis and much has been written about the influence of these deaths on her and her siblings and how it may have affected their later writings. Two of her sisters, Charlotte and Emily, were also authors and poets. Anne's poetry was published, along with that of her sisters, in 1846, under the pseudonym "Acton Bell".
Shortly after the deaths of her brother Branwell and sister Emily in the winter of 1848, Anne Bront? died at the seaside resort of Scarborough, England, where she had gone to convalesce after a prolonged illness. She was buried there at Saint Mary's Churchyard.
媒体推荐 Spotlight Reviews
From AudioFile Helen Graham has taken up residence in the bleak Wildfell Hall with her young son to escape her alcoholic and philandering husband. The story is narrated both by Helen and the man who falls in love with her. Frederick Davidson and Nadia May take the roles of the storytellers, and they do an excellent job of portraying both the male and female voices. May reads Helen''s diary and correspondence. May''s voice is young, fresh and naive, well-suited to Helen as a young woman; the voices of the men are excellent as well. Her laughter sounds genuine, and her portrayal of drunken men is perfect. She moves the narrative along crisply, with just the right touch of drama. Davidson''s voicing is also excellent, but he tends to overdramatize at times, and his tempo is just a shade too fast. The choice to use both male and female narrators was a good one, enlivening the story and underlining the differences between the sexes in Victorian England. S.S.R. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine
--This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister Of the three Bronte sisters, Emily and Charlotte are better known, yet it is Anne''s work which carries some of the strongest feminist themes. In
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall a devout young woman named Helen falls in love with a man who is handsome, but whose values are questionable; willing to believe she can alter his character, she marries him. Her marriage becomes a misery she has no power to change until she devises a bold plan to take control. Her story comes through two voices - her own and that of Gilbert Markham, a man who falls in love with Helen later in her life - and is told through journals and letters written over a period of time. Because of the privacy and immediacy of these narratives, the reader sees personal changes and attitudes Helen and Gilbert are often unaware of at the time: we witness Helen''s first naive protestations of passion for her husband and follow her through her eventual disillusionment; we recognize Gilbert''s early, unconscious egotism. While the plot continues and mysteries are unraveled, what Helen and Gilbert say - as well as what they don''t say - provides another story to follow, which reinforces Anne Bronte''s indictment of the sexual double standards of nineteenth-century Britain.
-- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let''s Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.Customer Reviews
From AudioFile Helen Graham has taken up residence in the bleak Wildfell Hall with her young son to escape her alcoholic and philandering husband. The story is narrated both by Helen and the man who falls in love with her. Frederick Davidson and Nadia May take the roles of the storytellers, and they do an excellent job of portraying both the male and female voices. May reads Helen''s diary and correspondence. May''s voice is young, fresh and naive, well-suited to Helen as a young woman; the voices of the men are excellent as well. Her laughter sounds genuine, and her portrayal of drunken men is perfect. She moves the narrative along crisply, with just the right touch of drama. Davidson''s voicing is also excellent, but he tends to overdramatize at times, and his tempo is just a shade too fast. The choice to use both male and female narrators was a good one, enlivening the story and underlining the differences between the sexes in Victorian England. S.S.R. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine
--This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister Of the three Bronte sisters, Emily and Charlotte are better known, yet it is Anne''s work which carries some of the strongest feminist themes. In
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall a devout young woman named Helen falls in love with a man who is handsome, but whose values are questionable; willing to believe she can alter his character, she marries him. Her marriage becomes a misery she has no power to change until she devises a bold plan to take control. Her story comes through two voices - her own and that of Gilbert Markham, a man who falls in love with Helen later in her life - and is told through journals and letters written over a period of time. Because of the privacy and immediacy of these narratives, the reader sees personal changes and attitudes Helen and Gilbert are often unaware of at the time: we witness Helen''s first naive protestations of passion for her husband and follow her through her eventual disillusionment; we recognize Gilbert''s early, unconscious egotism. While the plot continues and mysteries are unraveled, what Helen and Gilbert say - as well as what they don''t say - provides another story to follow, which reinforces Anne Bronte''s indictment of the sexual double standards of nineteenth-century Britain.
-- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let''s Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
