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  Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal: Selected Early Writings (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) (Paperback) Edited by Christine Alexander

  

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  Short Description for Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and GondalIn this new edition the writings of the young Brontes - Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell - are presented together for the first time in a single volume. The fantasy worlds of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal, experiments in romance and realism, provided a rich source for their later work and offer an insight into their developing creativity.
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Published: 15 November 2010
  • Format: Paperback 688 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Essays | Anthologies (non-poetry) | Literary Studies: General | Classics
  • ISBN 13: 9780192827630 ISBN 10: 0192827634
  • Sales rank: 123,032

• Selected Stories

  

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• Selected Letters

  

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• A Companion to the Fairy Tale

  

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• 'We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.' In their collaborative early writings the Brontes created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories, poems, and plays. Together they invented characters based on heroes and writers such as Wellington, Napoleon, Scott, and Byron, whose feuds, alliances, and love affairs weave an intricate web of social and political intrigue in imaginary colonial lands in Africa and the Pacific Ocean. The writings of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal are youthful experiments in imitation and parody, wild romance and realistic recording; they demonstrate the playful literary world that provided a 'myth kitty' for their early - and later - work. In this generous selection the writings of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell are presented together for the first time. The Introduction explores the rich imaginative lives of the Brontes, and the tension between their maturing authorship and creative freedom. The edition also includes Charlotte Bronte's Roe Head Journal, and Emily and Anne's Diary Papers, important autobiographical sources.