Jane Eyre - Softcover
Charlotte Brontė's first published novel, Jane Eyre was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847. Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. How she takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr Rochester and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage are elements in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally accorded to her sex in Victorian society.
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"Jane Eyre is the first fictional heroine to give women permission, as it were, to have an intense inner life." -- Joanna Trollope
"My all-time favourite classic is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontė." -- Jacqueline Wilson
"One of the most perfectly structured novels of all time." -- Sarah Waters
"So we open Jane Eyre... The writer has us by the hand, forces us along her road, makes us see what she sees, never leaves us for a moment or allows us to forget her. At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontė... It is the red and fitful glow of the heart's fire which illuminates her page." -- Virginia Woolf
"Why does Jane Eyre retain its appeal after so many decades, and so many intervening novels of virginal young heroines, Byronic moody mysterious elder men, and melodramatic disclosures? One answer is, simply, the quality of Jane's and Rochester's characters. They are believable. They are intelligent, yet emotional, superior beings who are human, even flawed; as the nineteenth-century reader would have discerned, they are models for us all." -- Joyce Carol Oates
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"My all-time favourite classic is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontė." -- Jacqueline Wilson
"One of the most perfectly structured novels of all time." -- Sarah Waters
"So we open Jane Eyre... The writer has us by the hand, forces us along her road, makes us see what she sees, never leaves us for a moment or allows us to forget her. At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontė... It is the red and fitful glow of the heart's fire which illuminates her page." -- Virginia Woolf
"Why does Jane Eyre retain its appeal after so many decades, and so many intervening novels of virginal young heroines, Byronic moody mysterious elder men, and melodramatic disclosures? One answer is, simply, the quality of Jane's and Rochester's characters. They are believable. They are intelligent, yet emotional, superior beings who are human, even flawed; as the nineteenth-century reader would have discerned, they are models for us all." -- Joyce Carol Oates
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0141037377
- ISBN 13 9780141037370
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages608
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