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 Brontė’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, Brontė’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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... perhaps because of it, Charlotte Brontė was a social analyst of considerable penetration, with not a little streak of cynicism. Her candor and mental courage make her one of the most forthright novelists of her day. Her realistic ...
... perhaps because of it, Charlotte Brontė was a social analyst of considerable penetration, with not a little streak of cynicism. Her candor and mental courage make her one of the most forthright novelists of her day. Her realistic ...
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... 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 or twice in the day, but continually: every nerve I ...
... 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 or twice in the day, but continually: every nerve I ...
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... perhaps, you would have a home here; but if you become passionate and rude, Missis will send you away, I am sure.” “Besides,” said Miss Abbot, “God will punish her: he might strike her dead in the midst of her tantrums, and then where ...
... perhaps, you would have a home here; but if you become passionate and rude, Missis will send you away, I am sure.” “Besides,” said Miss Abbot, “God will punish her: he might strike her dead in the midst of her tantrums, and then where ...
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... perhaps I might be so; what thought had I been but just conceiving of starving myself to death? That certainly was a crime: and was I fit to die? Or was the vault under the chancel of Gateshead Church an inviting bourne? In such vault I ...
... perhaps I might be so; what thought had I been but just conceiving of starving myself to death? That certainly was a crime: and was I fit to die? Or was the vault under the chancel of Gateshead Church an inviting bourne? In such vault I ...
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... Perhaps you may—who knows? Have you any relations besides Mrs. Reed?” “I think not, sir.” “None belonging to your father?” “I don't know; I asked aunt Reed once, and she said possibly I might have some poor, low relations called Eyre ...
... Perhaps you may—who knows? Have you any relations besides Mrs. Reed?” “I think not, sir.” “None belonging to your father?” “I don't know; I asked aunt Reed once, and she said possibly I might have some poor, low relations called Eyre ...
Contents
Chapter Seven | |
Chapter Nine | |
Chapter Eleven | |
Chapter Twelve | |
Chapter Fourteen | |
Chapter Sixteen | |
Chapter Eighteen | |
Chapter Nineteen | |
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