Capuchin Classics: Agnes Grey (Paperback)

from quaintlittlehead

"Agnes Grey" is a book I could have written and ought to like: the story of a deeply religious woman who finds her first teaching position intolerable and her second improved but disheartening because of her pupils' lack of moral sentiment. But it bores me. I try to do Anne Brontë the credit of i...

from helen295

Although I didn't think this book was as good as Anne Bronte's other novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and it didn't have the feel of a must-read classic like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights, there was still a lot to like about Agnes Grey. The plot is simple, plain and linear. It's the story of ...

from LauraBrook

This story, based on Anne's life to some extent, was unexpectedly easy to read. Yes, she does use broad, sweeping, stereotypical generalizations of the classes (rich = ignorant, cruel, gossipy, dumb; poor = kind, loving, forgiving, morally superior), and no, it's certainly not the most inventive ...

from ccookie

First lines: ~ All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut ~ Agnes Grey follows the life of a young woman who sets out to ...

from ctpress

It can be discussed how great a classic this is. Certainly not anything like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Maybe even just a classic because, well, she's the third sister....and yet, here I've read it again - and enjoyed it even more this second time. Based on Anne's own experiences as an unde...