Jane EyreIntroduction by Diane Johnson • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre erupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the world’s most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work “of great genius.” Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Brontë’s masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern, Jane Eyre endures as one of the world’s most beloved novels. |
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... John, and Georgiana Reed. The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor ...
... John, and Georgiana Reed. The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor ...
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... John Reed; then he paused: he found the room apparently empty. “Where the dickens is she?” he continued. “Lizzy! Georgy! (calling to his sisters) Jane is not here: tell mama she is run out into the rain—bad animal!” “It is well I drew ...
... John Reed; then he paused: he found the room apparently empty. “Where the dickens is she?” he continued. “Lizzy! Georgy! (calling to his sisters) Jane is not here: tell mama she is run out into the rain—bad animal!” “It is well I drew ...
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... John's sallowness was owing to over-application and, perhaps, to pining after home. John had not much affection for his mother and sisters and an antipathy to me. He bullied and punished me; not two or three times in the week, nor once ...
... John's sallowness was owing to over-application and, perhaps, to pining after home. John had not much affection for his mother and sisters and an antipathy to me. He bullied and punished me; not two or three times in the week, nor once ...
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... John!” “Did ever anybody see such a picture of passion!” Then Mrs. Reed subjoined:— “Take her away to the red-room, and lock her in there.” Four hands were immediately laid upon me, and I was borne upstairs. Chapter Two ...
... John!” “Did ever anybody see such a picture of passion!” Then Mrs. Reed subjoined:— “Take her away to the red-room, and lock her in there.” Four hands were immediately laid upon me, and I was borne upstairs. Chapter Two ...
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... John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well. Why was I always suffering, always ...
... John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well. Why was I always suffering, always ...
Contents
Chapter Seven | |
Chapter Nine | |
Chapter Eleven | |
Chapter Twelve | |
Chapter Fourteen | |
Chapter Sixteen | |
Chapter Eighteen | |
Chapter Nineteen | |
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