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The Professor
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) Charlotte Brontë , Introduction by Margaret Smith , Edited by Herbert Rosengarten


The Professor (1845-6), written before Jane Eyre, challenged contemporary expectations of the novel by its brevity, realism, and insistence on a working career both before and after marriage for its hero and heroine. Strikingly up to date for its period, the action begins against a background of the fight for better factory conditions in the 1830s, and finishes in the early 1840s with the spread of liberal ideas which led to the continental
revolutions of 1848.

This edition is based directly on the authors fair copy manuscript, and also includes `Emma, Charlotte Brontes last, unfinished attempt to write a novel after Villette.

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Product details

Format Paperback | 304 pages
Dimensions 129 x 197 x 14mm | 213g
Publication date 10 Sep 2008
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Reissue
ISBN10 0199536678
ISBN13 9780199536672
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