by Charlotte Brontë · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140620238
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«Shirley» is the novel by Charlotte Brontë, published by Penguin Books in paperback (672 pages, in English).
Set in Yorkshire during the Napoleonic Wars and the Luddite disturbances, the novel portrays the economic crisis and social unrest of the era. Robert Moore, a mill owner who neglects his workers, shapes the lives of two heroines: the timid Caroline Helstone and the independent Shirley Keeldar, whose inheritance gives her freedom.
The novel was originally published in 1849; this edition is from 1994 and belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
For readers of classic fiction interested in the social portrait of industrial England and in the work of Charlotte Brontë.
Charlotte Nicholls, commonly known by her maiden name Charlotte Brontë, was an English novelist and poet, and was the elder sister of Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which was first published under the pseudonym Currer Bell. Jane Eyre was a great success on publication, and has since been acknowledged as a classic of English literature.
