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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Fiction
Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and cruelty, and at a charity school with a harsh regime. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at Thornfield Ha ...Show more
Jane Eyre by BRONTE CHARLOTTE
Category: Fiction
'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!' Orphaned Jane Eyre, unwanted and lonely, endures a bleak childhood at Lowood school, but when she is sent as governess to Thornfield Hall, she finds an unexpected ally in her employer, the eccent ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
"For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre was written, illuminating modern commentary, and the novel itself in an authoritative text." Fred kaplan, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Sally Shuttleworth explores the power of "Jane Eyre" a narrative that questions the rights of women, the nature of servitude and madness, martyrdom and rebellion in a story whose emotional charge is a strong today as it was when it was published more than 150 years ago.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library classics
Jane Eyre (1847) has enjoyed huge popularity since first publication, and its success owes much to its exceptional emotional power. Jane Eyre, a penniless orphan, is engaged as governess at Thornfield Hall by the mysterious Mr Rochester. Her integrity and independence are tested to the limit as their lo ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Such a strange book! Imagine a novel with a little swarthy governess for heroine, and a middle-aged ruffian for hero.' Sharpe's London Magazine (June 1855) Jane Eyre is an orphan grown up under the harsh regime first of her aunt and then as a pupil at Lowood Institution. She leaves to become a governes ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Classic | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Orphaned Jane Eyre refuses to be cowed by the harsh treatment meted out by her austere aunt and bullying cousins. Independent of spirit and thirsting for knowledge and adventure, Jane relishes being sent away to Lowood school, where the grim conditions are mitigated by the bonds of a doomed friendship. ...Show more
Jane Eyre by BRONTE CHARLOTTE
Category: Fiction
Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre none the less emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. How she takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr Rochester and discovers the impediment to their ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics S.
Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre none the less emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. How she takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr Rochester and discovers the impediment to their ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a h ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Bronte, published under the pen name "Currer Bell".The novel revolutionised prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative. The novel goes through five distinct sta ...Show more