Anne Brontë names her novel after one of the grand homes where her protagonist, Helen Graham (nee Lawrence) lives. But the novel contains three grand homes—Staningley, where the novel begins and ends; Grassdale Manor, where Helen lives with her handsome but dissolute husband, Arthur Huntingdon; and Wildfell Hall, the abandoned mansion that Helen, posing as a widow, escapes to with… more
With the popularity of eBooks and Kindles, do you fear book covers are becoming extinct? Tim Kreider laments in “The Decline and Fall of the Book Cover” (published in The New Yorker,… more