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Title: Shirley: A Tale.
Description: London Collins, 1971. Reprint ed. Hardback small, no jacket, very good condition, leatherette flexible dark red card covers, gilt top edge, black & white drawing frontispiece, minor edgewear, ribbon bookmark. 510 pp. This is the classic story of Shirley and her family first published in 1849 (this edition, 1953, here reprinted in 1971 in red flexible covers by Collins). This is second novel by Charlotte Bronte after 'Jane Eyre', and is the most Yorkshire of her novels, and set during the depression from the Napoleonic wars in 1811 - 1812. It is a robust, racy, daylight story, crowded with characters and displaying many lively incidents. Introduction by Phyllis Bentley. ISBN: 00171972

Keywords: young adults fiction, literature classics 00171972

Price: AUD 12.00 = appr. US$ 8.30 Seller: Bookhome Sydney
- Book number: 25723

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