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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... strange, evolving psychodramas about two mythical kingdoms, Angria and Gondal, peopled with heroic lovers and imperious, autonomous women who must have represented their idealized selves. They lived in these imaginary worlds well beyond ...
... strange, evolving psychodramas about two mythical kingdoms, Angria and Gondal, peopled with heroic lovers and imperious, autonomous women who must have represented their idealized selves. They lived in these imaginary worlds well beyond ...
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... strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths. “Hold her arms, Miss Abbot: she's like a mad cat.” “For shame! for shame!” cried the lady's-maid. “What shocking conduct, Miss ...
... strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths. “Hold her arms, Miss Abbot: she's like a mad cat.” “For shame! for shame!” cried the lady's-maid. “What shocking conduct, Miss ...
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... strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and 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 ...
... strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and 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 ...
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... strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression—as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die. What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary afternoon ...
... strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression—as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die. What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary afternoon ...
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... strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group. A singular notion dawned upon me. I doubted not—never doubted—that if Mr. Reed had been alive he would have treated me ...
... strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group. A singular notion dawned upon me. I doubted not—never doubted—that if Mr. Reed had been alive he would have treated me ...
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Chapter Fourteen | |
Chapter Sixteen | |
Chapter Eighteen | |
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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