The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Author: Anne Brontë
New edition with the same ISBN, but another cover,Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: “You must go back with me…” are incomplete. Actual opening line of the novel is: “To J. Halford, Esq. Dear Halford, when we were together last…”Anne Bronte’s second novel is a passionate and courageous challenge to the conventions supposedly upheld by Victorian society an….Read More
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