Charlotte Bronte Classic Reprint

Author : T. M. C.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331711483
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Life of Charlotte Brontë written by T. M. C. and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life of Charlotte Bronte: Condensed From Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte The town of Keighley never quite melts into country on the road to Haworth, although the houses become more sparse as the traveler journeys upward to the gray round hills that seem to bound his journey of four miles. For a short distance the road appears to turn away from Haworth, as it winds round the base of the shoulder of a hill; but then it crosses a bridge over the "beck," and the ascent through the village begins. The flagstones with which it is paved are placed end-ways, in order to give a better hold to the horses' feet; and, even with this help, they seem to be in constant danger of slipping backward. The old stone houses are high compared to the width of the street, which makes an abrupt turn before reaching the more level ground at the head of the village, so that the steep aspect of the place, in one part, is almost like that of a wall. But this surmounted, the church lies a little off the main road on the left, a hundred yards or so, and the driver relaxes his care, and the horses breathe more easily, as they pass into the quiet little by-street that leads to Haworth Parsonage. The churchyard is on one side of this lane, the schoolhouse and the sexton's dwelling (where the curates formerly lodged) on the other. The parsonage stands at right angles to the road, facing down upon the church; so that, in fact, parsonage, church, and belfried schoolhouse, form three sides of an irregular oblong, of which the fourth is open to the fields and moors that lie beyond. The little church lies above most of the houses in the village; and the graveyard rises above the church, and is terribly full of upright tombstones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."