false 144852 11 When Charlotte Brontë died in 1855, she left behind twenty pages of a novel that signaled her most compelling work since <I>Jane Eyre</I>. One hundred fifty years later, Clare Boylan has finished Brontë's novel, sparking a sensational literary event. With pitch-perfect tone that is utterly true to Brontë's voice, Boylan delivers a brilliant tale about a mysterious young girl, Matilda, who is delivered to a girls' school in provincial England. When everything about the girl's wealthy background turns out to be a fiction, it falls to a local gentleman, Mr. Ellin, and a childless widow, Isabel Chalfont, to begin a quest for her past and her identity that takes them from the drawing rooms of country society to London's seamiest alleys. With all the intelligence and pathos of the novel's originator, Boylan develops Brontë's sketch of a girl without a past into a stunning portrait of Victorian society with a shameful secret at its heart. 1621313 2003 Emma Brown total:262|5:38|4:104|3:82|2:31|1:7| 262 921 455 63 2 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 05:56:56 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 07:36:01 -0700 2007 Emma Brown is a modern-day continuation of a novel left unfinished by Charlotte Bronte at the time of her death. It's a quick read, and one which definitely encompasses all the kinds of twists and turns of astonishing coincidence that marks a truly Gothic, Brontean novel. However, the tone is much t...more...]]> 4 0 true true Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 04:45:48 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 05:24:02 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Sep 14 13:10:22 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 13:17:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Aug 15 05:51:46 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 05:53:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false true Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 17:02:31 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 17:05:20 -0700 2009
Sadly, that's pretty much it.

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