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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 68
Page
... arm-chair, he intimated by a gesture that I was to approach and stand before him. John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten; large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome ...
... arm-chair, he intimated by a gesture that I was to approach and stand before him. John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten; large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome ...
Page
... arms, 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 ...
... arms, 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 ...
Page
... arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie's evening stories represented as coming up ...
... arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie's evening stories represented as coming up ...
Page
... arm, and felt easy. In five minutes more, the cloud of bewilderment dissolved: I knew quite well that I was in my own bed, and that the red glare was the nursery fire. It was night: a candle burnt on the table, Bessie stood at the bed ...
... arm, and felt easy. In five minutes more, the cloud of bewilderment dissolved: I knew quite well that I was in my own bed, and that the red glare was the nursery fire. It was night: a candle burnt on the table, Bessie stood at the bed ...
Page
... arm, and gazed at me as if she really did not know whether I were child or fiend. I was now in for it. “My uncle Reed is in heaven, and can see all you do and think; and so can papa and mama: they know how you shut me up all day long ...
... arm, and gazed at me as if she really did not know whether I were child or fiend. I was now in for it. “My uncle Reed is in heaven, and can see all you do and think; and so can papa and mama: they know how you shut me up all day long ...
Contents
Chapter Seven | |
Chapter Nine | |
Chapter Eleven | |
Chapter Twelve | |
Chapter Fourteen | |
Chapter Sixteen | |
Chapter Eighteen | |
Chapter Nineteen | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adèle answer appeared arms asked believe Bessie better called child close cold continued dark door doubt dressed entered expected eyes Eyre face Fairfax fear feel felt fire followed gave girl give half hall hand happy head hear heard heart hope hour Ingram Jane John keep kind knew ladies leave light listen live looked married Mary master mean mind minutes Miss morning nature never night once passed perhaps pleasure present question Reed rest returned Rochester rose round seemed seen side silence sisters smile soon sort sound speak stay step stood strange suppose sure talk tell thing Thornfield thought told took turned voice walk watched wife window wish woman wonder young