Jane Eyre /
Charlotte Brontė.
- New York : Modern Library, 2000, c1847.
- 1 v. 489 p.
- Penguin classics .
- Modern Library classics. .
First published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell. 1966 Penguin English Library paperback includes bibliographical references and is edited by Q. D. Leavis
Since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre has never ceased to be one of the most widely read of English novels. Transmuted by the rare Brontė imagination, the romance of Jane and Rochester takes on a strange and unforgettable atmosphere that lifts it above the level of mere melodrama. But Charlotte Brontė intended more. She portrayed the refusal of a spirited and intelligent woman to accept her appointed place in society with unusual frankness and with a passionate sense of the dignity and needs of her sex.
9780140430110 0140430113 (1966 Penguin English Library pbk.)
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