Medias
Shirley
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'You expected bread, and you have got a stone; break your teeth on it, and don't shriek...you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob.'
Shirley is Charlotte Bronte's only historical novel and her most topical one. Written at a time of social unrest, it is set during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, when economic hardship led to riots in the woollen district of Yorkshire. A mill-owner, Robert Moore, is determined to introduce new
machinery despite fie
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Technical specifications
Release date | June 08th 2008 |
Language | English |
Publisher | OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Collection | Oxford World's Classics |
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Accessibility | No information is available regarding the accessibility of the format Paper |