Jane Eyre {Deluxe Edition} The Original Classic Including Photos, Illustrations, & Bonus Entire Audiobook Narration

Jane Eyre {Deluxe Edition} The Original Classic Including Photos, Illustrations, & Bonus Entire Audiobook Narration

Jane Eyre {Deluxe Edition} The Original Classic Including Photos, Illustrations, & Bonus Entire Audiobook Narration

Jane Eyre {Deluxe Edition} The Original Classic Including Photos, Illustrations, & Bonus Entire Audiobook Narration

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Jane Eyre {Deluxe Edition} The Original Classic Including Photos, Illustrations, & Bonus Entire Audio Narration

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Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England, in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre. An Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. The Penguin edition describes it as an "influential feminist text" because of its in-depth exploration of a strong female character's feelings.

The novel merges elements of three distinct genres. It has the form of a Bildungsroman, a story about a child's maturation, focusing on the emotions and experiences that accompany growth to adulthood. The novel also contains much social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, and finally has the brooding and moody quality and Byronic character typical of Gothic fiction.

It is a novel often considered ahead of its time due to its portrayal of the development of a thinking and passionate young woman who is both individualistic, desiring for a full life, while also highly moral. Jane evolves from her beginnings as a poor and plain woman without captivating charm to her mature stage as a compassionate and confident whole woman. As she matures, she comments much on the complexities of the human condition. Jane also has a deeply pious personal trust in God, but is also highly self-reliant. Although Jane suffers much, she is never portrayed as a damsel in distress who needs rescuing. For this reason, it is sometimes regarded as an important early feminist (or proto-feminist) novel.

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BN ID: 2940015930467
Publisher: Northpointe Classics
Publication date: 11/01/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
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About the Author

Charlotte Brontë (April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell. Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, the third of six children, to Maria (née Branwell) and her husband Patrick Brontë (formerly surnamed Brunty or Prunty), an Irish Anglican clergyman. In 1820, the family moved a few miles to Haworth, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate of St Michael and All Angels Church. Charlotte's mother died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to be taken care of by her sister Elizabeth Branwell.
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