The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Bronte

Publié par Books on Demand, le 03 juin 2019

626 pages

Résumé

You must go back with me to the autumn of 1827. My father, as you know, was a sort of gentleman farmer in -shire; and I, by his express desire, succeeded him in the same quiet occupation, not very willingly, for ambition urged me to higher aims, and self-conceit assured me that, in disregarding its voice, I was burying my talent in the earth, and hiding my light under a bushel. My mother had done her utmost to persuade me that I was capable of great achievements; but my father, who thought ambition was the surest road to ruin, and change but another word for destruction, would listen to no scheme for bettering either my own condition, or that of my fellow mortals. He assured me it was all rubbish, and exhorted me, with his dying breath, to continue in the good old way, to follow his steps, and those of his father before him, and let my highest ambition be to walk honestly through the world, looking neither to the right hand nor to the left, and to transmit the paternal acres to my children in, at least, as flourishing a condition as he left them to me.

Agnès Grey

Agnès Grey

Romans : Jane Eyre, La Châtelaine de Wildfell Hall, Le Professeur

La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

La Dame du manoir de Wildfell Hall

Agnès Grey

Agnès Grey

Agnes Grey - Roman

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