The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Oxford Worlds Classics
Anne Brontë, Herbert Rosengarten

New Edition

Paperback (17 Apr 2008)


Publishers Synopsis

he looked up wistfully in my face, and gravely asked - "Mamma, why are you so wicked?"

The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall has a dark secret. But as the captivated Gilbert Markham will discover, it is not the story circulating among local gossips. Living under an assumed name, Helen Graham is the estranged wife of a dissolute rake, desperate to protect her son from his destructive influence. Her diary entries reveal the shocking world of debauchery and cruelty from which she has fled. Combining a sensational story of a mans physical and moral decline through alcohol, a study of marital breakdown, a disquisition on the care and upbringing of children, and a hard-hitting critique of the position of women in Victorian society, this passionate tale of betrayal is set within a stern moral framework tempered by Anne Brontës optimistic belief in universal redemption. Drawing on her first-hand experiences with her brother Branwell, Brontës novel scandalized contemporary readers. It still retains its power to shock.


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Book information

ISBN: 9780199207558
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date: 17 Apr 2008
Edition: New Edition
DEWEY: 823.8
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 441
Weight: 346g
Height: 196mm
Width: 133mm
Spine width: 22mm