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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... dark wardrobe, with subdued, broken reflections varying the gloss of its panels; to my left were the muffled windows; a great looking-glass between them repeated the vacant majesty of the bed and room. I was not quite sure whether they ...
... dark wardrobe, with subdued, broken reflections varying the gloss of its panels; to my left were the muffled windows; a great looking-glass between them repeated the vacant majesty of the bed and room. I was not quite sure whether they ...
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... dark skin, similar to his own; bluntly disregarded her wishes; not infrequently tore and spoiled her silk attire ... darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought! I could not answer the ceaseless inward question—why I ...
... dark skin, similar to his own; bluntly disregarded her wishes; not infrequently tore and spoiled her silk attire ... darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought! I could not answer the ceaseless inward question—why I ...
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... dark room: at this moment a light gleamed on the wall. Was it, I asked myself, a ray from the moon penetrating some aperture in the blind? No; moonlight was still, and this stirred; while I gazed, it glided up to the ceiling and ...
... dark room: at this moment a light gleamed on the wall. Was it, I asked myself, a ray from the moon penetrating some aperture in the blind? No; moonlight was still, and this stirred; while I gazed, it glided up to the ceiling and ...
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... dark.” I saw Mr. Lloyd smile and frown at the same time: “Ghost! What, you are a baby after all! You are afraid of ghosts?” “Of Mr. Reed's ghost I am: he died in that room, and was laid out there. Neither Bessie nor any one else will go ...
... dark.” I saw Mr. Lloyd smile and frown at the same time: “Ghost! What, you are a baby after all! You are afraid of ghosts?” “Of Mr. Reed's ghost I am: he died in that room, and was laid out there. Neither Bessie nor any one else will go ...
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... darkness in my crib. To this crib I always took my doll; human beings must love something, and in the dearth of worthier ... dark eyes, very nice features, and good, clear complexion; but she had a capricious and hasty temper, and ...
... darkness in my crib. To this crib I always took my doll; human beings must love something, and in the dearth of worthier ... dark eyes, very nice features, and good, clear complexion; but she had a capricious and hasty temper, and ...
Contents
Chapter Seven | |
Chapter Nine | |
Chapter Eleven | |
Chapter Twelve | |
Chapter Fourteen | |
Chapter Sixteen | |
Chapter Eighteen | |
Chapter Nineteen | |
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