{"product_id":"9781593765972","title":"Branwell","description":"By: Douglas A. Martin     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Michael Cunningham's \u003ci\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/i\u003e and Madeline Miller's \u003ci\u003eSong of Achilles\u003c\/i\u003e, this genre-bending exploration of the tragic figure of Branwell Brontë and the dismal, dazzling landscape that inspired his sisters to greatness is now available in a new edition with an introduction by Darcey Steinke.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBranwell Brontë--brother of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne—has a childhood marked by tragedy and the weight of expectations. After the early deaths of his mother and a beloved older sister, he is kept away from school and tutored at home by his father, a curate, who rests all his ambitions for his children on his only son. Branwell grows up isolated in his family’s parsonage on the moors, learning Latin and Greek, being trained in painting, and collaborating on endless stories and poems with his sisters. Yet while his sisters go on to write \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAgnes Grey\u003c\/i\u003e, Branwell wanders from job to job, growing increasingly dependent on alcohol and opium and failing to become a great poet or artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith rich, suggestive sentences “perfectly fitted to this famously imaginative, headstrong family” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eBranwell\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of childhood dreams, thwarted desire, the confinements of gender—and an homage to the landscape and milieu that inspired some of the most revolutionary works of English literature.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46558541676771,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781593765972","price":112.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781593765972.jpg?v=1749640789","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9781593765972","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}