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Jane Eyre

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • Published: 03/12/2015

  • ISBN: 9780241256534

  • Length: 576  Pages

  • Dimensions: 240mm x 38mm x 162mm

  • Weight: 976g

  • RRP: £20.00

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Charlotte Brontë'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.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • Published: 03/12/2015

  • ISBN: 9780241256534

  • Length: 576  Pages

  • Dimensions: 240mm x 38mm x 162mm

  • Weight: 976g

  • RRP: £20.00

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About the Author

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë was born in Yorkshire in 1816. As a child, she was sent to boarding school, where two of her sisters died; she was subsequently educated at home with her younger siblings, Emily, Branwell and Anne. As an adult, Charlotte worked as a governess and taught in a school in Brussels. Jane Eyre was first published in 1847 under the pen-name Currer Bell, and was followed by Shirley (1848), Villette (1853) and The Professor (posthumously published in 1857). In 1854 Charlotte married her father's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died in March of the following year.

Charlotte Brontë

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