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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... silent.” A small breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room. I slipped in there. It contained a book-case: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. I mounted into the window-seat ...
... silent.” A small breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room. I slipped in there. It contained a book-case: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. I mounted into the window-seat ...
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... silence, which I never thought thus to have declared aloud. “What! what!” he cried. “Did you say that to me? Did you hear her, Eliza and Georgiana? Won't I tell mama? but first”— He ran headlong at me: I felt him grasp my hair and my ...
... silence, which I never thought thus to have declared aloud. “What! what!” he cried. “Did you say that to me? Did you hear her, Eliza and Georgiana? Won't I tell mama? but first”— He ran headlong at me: I felt him grasp my hair and my ...
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... silent, because remote from the nursery and kitchens; solemn, because it was known to be so seldom entered. The housemaid alone came here on Saturdays, to wipe from the mirrors and the furniture a week's quiet dust: and Mrs. Reed ...
... silent, because remote from the nursery and kitchens; solemn, because it was known to be so seldom entered. The housemaid alone came here on Saturdays, to wipe from the mirrors and the furniture a week's quiet dust: and Mrs. Reed ...
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... an hour longer, and it is only on condition of perfect submission and stillness that I shall liberate you then.” “Oh aunt, have pity! Forgive me! I cannot endure it—let me be punished some other way! I shall be killed if—” “Silence!
... an hour longer, and it is only on condition of perfect submission and stillness that I shall liberate you then.” “Oh aunt, have pity! Forgive me! I cannot endure it—let me be punished some other way! I shall be killed if—” “Silence!
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... Silence! This violence is all most repulsive:” and so, no doubt, she felt it. I was a precocious actress in her eyes: she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity. Bessie and Abbot ...
... Silence! This violence is all most repulsive:” and so, no doubt, she felt it. I was a precocious actress in her eyes: she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity. Bessie and Abbot ...
Contents
Chapter Seven | |
Chapter Nine | |
Chapter Eleven | |
Chapter Twelve | |
Chapter Fourteen | |
Chapter Sixteen | |
Chapter Eighteen | |
Chapter Nineteen | |
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