Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte (Penguin Classics)

Bronte, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141441143 ISBN 13: 9780141441146

Publisher: Penguin, 2006

Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt and later attends a charity school with a harsh regime, enduring loneliness and cruelty.  This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at Thornfield Hall.

However, when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice.  Should she stay with him and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions, even if it means leaving the man she loves?  A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre (1847) dazzled and shocked readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom.

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Review:

"At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontė."
--Virginia Woolf

From the Publisher:

A stirring romance realized in all its heartrending beauty and mythic power.
In addition to its intense romanticism, Jane Eyre features a satisfying assortment of wicked relatives, terrifying mayhem, extrasensory messages and astonishing coincidences, enough to have kept readers thoroughly entertained for 160 years!