Published in June 1848, less than a year before her death, Anne Bronte's second (and last) novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, is the somber account of the breakdown of a marriage in the face of alcoholism and infidelity. The novel enjoyed a modest success that led its publisher, theunscrupulous T.C. Newby, to issue a "Second Edition" less than two months later. The present edition, which completes the Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontes, offers a text based on the collation of the first edition with the second. The introduction details the work's composition andearly printing history, including its first publication in America; and the text is fully annotated. Appendices record the substantive variants in the first English and American editions, and discuss the author's belief in the doctrine of universal salvation.
| LoC Classification |
CPBBoxno.788 .vol. 6 |
| LoC Control Number |
97820268 |
| Dewey |
823/.8 |
| Cover Price |
$6.95 |
| No. of Pages |
490 |
| Height x Width |
7.1
x
4.4
inch |
|
|
|