The Essence of the Brontës
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The Essence of the Brontës

A Compilation with Essays

  1. 327 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Essence of the Brontës

A Compilation with Essays

About this book

First published in 1993, this book brings together Muriel Spark's writings on the Brontë sisters, including a selection of their letters and a selection of Emily Brontë's poems. Perceptively but unsentimentally, Spark considers the Brontës' lives and works, including their generally disastrous attempts at teaching, and reflects on her own fascination, as a writer and a reader, with Emily Brontë and with "the immortal Wuthering Heights and its nightmare hero." This edition features a new foreword by Boyd Tonkin, the literary editor at the Independent.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. About the Author
  4. Half Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction: Muriel Spark and the Brontes by Boyd Tonkin
  9. Foreword by Muriel Spark
  10. List of Illustrations
  11. 1: The Brontes as Teachers
  12. 2: Letters of the Brontes
  13. 3: Emily Bronte: Her Life
  14. 4: Selected Poems of Emily Bronte
  15. 5: At Emily Bronte's Grave, Haworth, April 1961
  16. 6: My Favourite Villain: Heathcliff
  17. Principal Works of the Brontes