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A manuscript is discovered which appears to be the conclusion of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". The unearthed chapters describe a barren marriage, financial ruin, and ultimately, the death of Lord Rochester. Grace Poole, a survivor of the fire at Thornfield Hall, reveals to Jane the final Rochester secret: that a boy was born to the first Mrs Rochester in Martinique. The child was black and subsequently abandoned. As Jane Eyre and Grace Poole board a packet-boat for the Caribbean in search of Rochester's only male heir, and financial future, this novel gives an insight into the hidden eroticism of Bronte's work and deconstructs the Victorian novel. The scene abruptly changes to modern times, when a woman books into a Martinique hotel under the name Charlotte Bronte...
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"A wickedly irreverent antidote to earnest study" - The Independent
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D.M. Thomas was born in Cornwall in 1935. He is a poet and the author of several novels, including The White Hotel (1981), which won international acclaim and was awarded the P.E.N. Prize, Cheltenham Prize and L.A. Times Fiction Prize. D.M. Thomas still lives in Cornwall, and recently received much praise for his biography, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in his Life.
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- PublisherDuck Editions
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0715630040
- ISBN 13 9780715630044
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages173
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st UK Ed. A manuscript is discovered purporting to be the work of Charlotte Bronte. The manuscript ,noth remarkable and surprising offers a darker alternative ending to the story of Jane and Mr.Rochester. 173p. Book. Seller Inventory # 039633
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