The Search After Happiness: Including Introductory Essays by G. K. Chesterton and Virginia Woolf

Charlotte Brontë

Nov 2018 · Read Books Ltd

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Written by Charlotte Brontë at just thirteen, this striking early tale is a fascinating glimpse into the beginnings of one of literature’s greatest voices.

Step into Glass Town, an imagined African kingdom where ambition burns bright and happiness is the rarest treasure of all. In The Search After Happiness, a young Henry O’Donell sets out on a daring quest for true contentment, chasing answers that wealth and power can’t provide. This early work from Charlotte Brontë is filled with bold imagination and surprising emotional depth, exploring timeless questions about purpose, longing, and what it really means to live well.

Written by Charlotte Brontë at just thirteen, this striking early tale is a fascinating glimpse into the beginnings of one of literature’s greatest voices. Step into Glass Town, an imagined African kingdom where ambition burns bright and happiness is the rarest treasure of all. In The Search Aft...

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Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) was an English writer and the eldest of the Brontë sisters. Writing under the male pseudonym of Currer Bell, she published a book of poetry with her sisters, Emily and Anne, in 1846. Her first published novel ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847) is a widely celebrated classic of English literature and features themes of early feminism. Her following two novels were also highly successful and remain popular today.

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