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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... soon. The breakfast-room door opened. “Boh! Madame Mope!” cried the voice of John Reed; then he paused: he found the room apparently empty. “Where the dickens is she?” he continued. “Lizzy! Georgy! (calling to his sisters) Jane is not ...
... soon. The breakfast-room door opened. “Boh! Madame Mope!” cried the voice of John Reed; then he paused: he found the room apparently empty. “Where the dickens is she?” he continued. “Lizzy! Georgy! (calling to his sisters) Jane is not ...
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... soon enough, however; the volume was flung, it hit me, and I fell, striking my head against the door and cutting it. The cut bled, the pain was sharp; my terror had passed its climax; other feelings succeeded. “Wicked and cruel boy!” I ...
... soon enough, however; the volume was flung, it hit me, and I fell, striking my head against the door and cutting it. The cut bled, the pain was sharp; my terror had passed its climax; other feelings succeeded. “Wicked and cruel boy!” I ...
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... farther parley. I heard her sweeping away; and soon after she was gone, I suppose I had a species of fit: unconsciousness closed the scene. Chapter Three ....................................... he next thing I remember is, waking.
... farther parley. I heard her sweeping away; and soon after she was gone, I suppose I had a species of fit: unconsciousness closed the scene. Chapter Three ....................................... he next thing I remember is, waking.
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... soon, no doubt.” Bessie went into the housemaid's apartment which was near. I heard her say— “Sarah, come and sleep with me in the nursery; I daren't for my life be alone with that poor child to-night; she might die; it's such a strange ...
... soon, no doubt.” Bessie went into the housemaid's apartment which was near. I heard her say— “Sarah, come and sleep with me in the nursery; I daren't for my life be alone with that poor child to-night; she might die; it's such a strange ...
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... Soon will the twilight close moonless and dreary Over the path of the poor orphan child. “Why did they send me so far and so lonely, Up where the moors spread and grey rocks are piled? Men are hard-hearted, and kind angels only Watch'd ...
... Soon will the twilight close moonless and dreary Over the path of the poor orphan child. “Why did they send me so far and so lonely, Up where the moors spread and grey rocks are piled? Men are hard-hearted, and kind angels only Watch'd ...
Contents
Chapter Seven | |
Chapter Nine | |
Chapter Eleven | |
Chapter Twelve | |
Chapter Fourteen | |
Chapter Sixteen | |
Chapter Eighteen | |
Chapter Nineteen | |
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