Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

666 pages first pub 1849 (editions)

fiction classics literary romance emotional reflective slow-paced
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Published in 1840, and set during the Napoleonic wars, Shirley details social upheavals resulting from the industrial revolution.  Robert Moore has modernized his mill, only to nearly bankrupt himself and make enemies of his workers.  Desperate to...

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