Jane Eyre

Author: Charlotte Brontë

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  • : $14.99 AUD
  • : 9780141198859
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : December 2011
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 25mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 16.99
  • : June 2012
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  • : Charlotte Brontë
  • : Penguin English Library
  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9780141198859
9780141198859

Description

The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself' Passionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotional power. Its story of a defiant, fiercely intelligent woman who refuses to accept her appointed place in society - and instead finds love on her own terms - has become famous as one of the greatest romances ever written, but it is also a brooding Gothic mystery, a profound depiction of character and a transformative work of the imagination. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Author description

Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, one of an extraordinary group of siblings who spent their time immersed in reading and writing and between them went on to change the nature of English fiction. Publishing under the pseudonym Currer Bell, Charlotte was a great friend of Elizabeth Gaskell, who wrote her biography, as well as William Makepeace Thackeray and George Henry Lewes. Bronte's novels Shirley and Villette are also published in the Penguin English Library.