The Complete Novels

This set gathers the seven novels of the three Bronte sisters. Charlotte's books follow a governess who becomes a wife at Thornfield, a mill-town struggle in Shirley, a teacher's life in Villette, and the earlier Professor. Emily's single novel is the two-generation story of the Earnshaws and Lintons at Wuthering Heights. Anne's Agnes Grey is a governess's account of two households; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a nested narrative of a woman who leaves a drunken husband. Yorkshire houses, work, and marriage are the common ground. The collection is the fiction, not the poems or the juvenilia.

Bound in green moiré silk (later reprints were issued in grey moire silk and in 2004 changed to blue buckram/paper bindings, issued in a seven-volume dark blue slipcase. Pale green endleaves. Seven-volume slipcase covered with green moiré silk and titled in gold. Villette, eleven. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, sixteen. The Professor, twelve.