‘The masterwork of a great genius’ — so William Makepeace Thackeray described Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and generations of readers have agreed. Fierce in intelligence, charged with emotional intensity and alive with a heightened gothic atmosphere, the novel follows Jane from the cruelty of her aunt’s household and the harsh charity of Lowood School into the wider world. When she takes up a post as governess at Thornfield Hall, her natural spirit and independence are put to their sternest test: she falls in love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, only for a shameful hidden secret to surface and confront her with an agonising choice. At its heart, Jane Eyre remains a blazingly passionate account of a woman determined to find equality and freedom entirely on her own terms. Edited with an Introduction and notes by Stevie Davies.
ISBN 13: 9780141441146
Author: Charlotte Bronte
