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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... Miss Abbot: she's like a mad cat.” “For shame! for shame!” cried the lady's-maid. “What shocking conduct, Miss Eyre, to strike a young gentleman, your benefactress's son! Your young master.” “Master! How is he my master? Am I a servant ...
... Miss Abbot: she's like a mad cat.” “For shame! for shame!” cried the lady's-maid. “What shocking conduct, Miss Eyre, to strike a young gentleman, your benefactress's son! Your young master.” “Master! How is he my master? Am I a servant ...
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... Miss, that you are under obligations to Mrs. Reed: she keeps you: if she were to turn you off, you would have to go to the poor-house.” I had nothing to say to these words: they were not new to me: my very first recollections of ...
... Miss, that you are under obligations to Mrs. Reed: she keeps you: if she were to turn you off, you would have to go to the poor-house.” I had nothing to say to these words: they were not new to me: my very first recollections of ...
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... Miss Eyre, are you ill?” said Bessie. “What a dreadful noise! it went quite through me!” exclaimed Abbot. “Take me out! Let me go into the nursery!” was my cry. “What for! Are you hurt! Have you seen something?” again demanded Bessie ...
... Miss Eyre, are you ill?” said Bessie. “What a dreadful noise! it went quite through me!” exclaimed Abbot. “Take me out! Let me go into the nursery!” was my cry. “What for! Are you hurt! Have you seen something?” again demanded Bessie ...
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Charlotte Bronte. “Do you feel as if you should sleep, Miss?” asked Bessie, rather softly. Scarcely dared I answer her; for I feared the next sentence might be rough. “I will try.” “Would you like to drink, or could you eat anything ...
Charlotte Bronte. “Do you feel as if you should sleep, Miss?” asked Bessie, rather softly. Scarcely dared I answer her; for I feared the next sentence might be rough. “I will try.” “Would you like to drink, or could you eat anything ...
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... a thought that for strength should avail me, Though both of shelter and kindred despoiled; Heaven is a home, and a rest will not fail me; God is a friend to the poor orphan child.” “Come, Miss Jane, don't cry,” said Bessie, as she finished.
... a thought that for strength should avail me, Though both of shelter and kindred despoiled; Heaven is a home, and a rest will not fail me; God is a friend to the poor orphan child.” “Come, Miss Jane, don't cry,” said Bessie, as she finished.
Contents
Chapter Seven | |
Chapter Nine | |
Chapter Eleven | |
Chapter Twelve | |
Chapter Fourteen | |
Chapter Sixteen | |
Chapter Eighteen | |
Chapter Nineteen | |
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