Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won. Glass Town is an original graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg that encompasses the eccentric childhoods of the four Bront. Translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha More than anything else, it is a book that will make you want to read their works, if you haven’t already. Glass Town is the kind of graphic novel that will make you want to know more about the Brontë family, their origins, their lives, their loves and feuds, and how they wrote those books they did. Glass Town is also a graphic that has seemingly simple illustrations, but they are quite complex if looked closely. Greenberg merges the fictional with the factual most exactingly – to the point that you want to believe it all. The world that meant so much to the Brontë siblings and what it did to them once it was all gone and over with. There is the “real” world in the book, and the “fictional” world. Greenberg felt that way too about the works of the Brontës, which of course led to the creation of this book. To a large extent, I also thought that Ms. This then enables readers to see their works in a whole new light – fantastical and extraordinary. It is a book about bringing fictional worlds to life and how writers immerse themselves in it. Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg is a stunning graphic novel of the world created by these siblings, their lives, the lives of their characters, and above all the power of art and imagination. However, from about 1831, Emily and Anne distanced themselves from Glass Town and created their own world called Gondal, which then started to feature in many of their poems.
Glass Town was first created by Charlotte and Branwëll Brontë, followed by Emily and Anne to build the creation of an imaginary world in which their stories flourished. Glass Town is a fictitious world created by the Brontë siblings, first appearing in December 1827. Publisher: Jonathan Cape, Penguin Random House
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