Charlotte Bronte was a natural story-teller with a gift for creating memorable characters and for evoking atmosphere. The novel is set among the cloth mills of the author's native Yorkshire and she succeeds brilliantly in creating the full drama of the latter part of the Napoleonic Wars when labour-saving machinery was smashed by desperate, unemployed workers.
Rich in historical detail Shirley is a human as well as a social novel with a perpetual relevance in its exploration of humanity's efforts to reconcile personal and economic aspirations with social justice and harmony.
【目录】
Ⅰ Levitical
Ⅱ The Wagons
Ⅲ Mr Yorke
Ⅳ Mr Yorke (continued)
Ⅴ Hollow's Cottage
Ⅵ Coriolanus
Ⅶ The Curates at Tea
Ⅷ Noah and Moses
Ⅸ Briarmains
Ⅹ OldMaids
Ⅺ Fieldhead
Ⅻ Shirley and Caroline
ⅩⅢ Further Communications on Business
ⅩⅣ Shirley Seeks to be Saved by Works
ⅩⅤ Mr Donne's Exodus
ⅩⅥ Whitsuntide
ⅩⅦ The School Feast
ⅩⅧ Which the Genteel Reader is Recommended to Skip, Low Persons being here Introduced
ⅩⅨ A Summer Night
ⅩⅩ TomoTow
ⅩⅪ Mrs Pryor
ⅩⅫ Two Lives
ⅩⅩⅢ An Evening Out
ⅩⅩⅣ The Valley of the Shadow of Death
ⅩⅩⅤ The West Wind Blows
ⅩⅩⅥ Old Copy-books
ⅩⅩⅦ The First Bluestocking
ⅩⅩⅧ Phoebe
ⅩⅩⅨ Louis Moore
ⅩⅩⅩ Rushedge - a Confessional
ⅩⅩⅩⅠ Uncle and Niece
ⅩⅩⅩⅡ The Schoolboy and the Wood-nymph
ⅩⅩⅩⅢ Martin's Tactics
ⅩⅩⅩⅣ Case of Domestic Persecution - Remarkable Instance of Pious Perseverance in the Discharge of Religious Duties
ⅩⅩⅩⅤ Wherein Matters Make some Progress, but not much
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