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Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, falls in love with Mr Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a richer life than that traditionally allowed women in Victorian society.

Charlotte Bronte'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.

A story of passionate love, travail and final triumph. The relationship between the heroine and Mr Rochester is only one episode, albeit the most important, in a detailed fictional autobiography in which the author transmuted her own experience into high art.

Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Le vent dans les landes désolées a creusé l'âme des soeurs Brontë. Seules, elles se sont inventé une compagnie ; célibataires, elles ont rêvé l'amour. Publié en même temps

Charlotte Bronte, Nicola BarkerAn ingenious, highly imaginative early novella, The Spella remarkable tale of love and jealousy, rivalry and thwarted ambitionis a testimony to Charlotte Bronte's craft as a writer. When the infant Marquis of Almeida is pronounced dead, the kingdoms of Wellingtonsland and Angria are deprived of their heir. Anxious to secure the nations future security, King Zamornas advisers entreat him to name his successorand when Zamorna himself succumbs to a mysterious, life-threatening sickness, the need becomes more urgent still. Yet Zamorna remains strangely unperturbed. Confusion turns to political intrigue as those closest to him wonder exactly what it is he knows and who, precisely, are the mysterious characters surrounding him. English novelist Charlotte Bronte is best remembered for her perennially popular novel, Jane Eyre.

Lucy Snowe, sin familia, sin dinero, sin posición, entra a trabajar en un internado en una ciudad extranjera, Villette. No ser advertida, ni recordada, ni apreciada constituye su presente y, según cree, su destino. Madame Beck, la directora, la sujeta a sus consignas: espionaje y vigilancia; el doctor John, joven y apuesto, seductor y melancólico, cree que está enferma; el profesor Paul Emanuel, un «severo hombrecillo» que oculta, bajo su temperamento colérico, un corazón sacrificado, dice haberla conocido desde el primer momento en que la vio; incluso un fantasma -el de una monja que se recluyó por un amor prohibido- la acosa y aterroriza. Por primera vez íntegra en español, Villette fue la última novela de Charlotte Brontë, construida sobre sus recuerdos como alumna y profesora de un internado en Bruselas.

Introducción de Marta Pessarrodona. Charlotte Brontë aporta a la novela inglesa la conciencia emocional del autor en la bora de ficción, una aportación importante ya en un terreno literario general,

""Villette"! "Villette"! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than "Jane Eyre." There is something almost preternatural in its power." Arguably Bronte's most refined and deeply felt work, "Villette" draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of "Villette, "flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new file as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of "Villette." Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her freindship with a wordly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Bronte's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free. ""Villette" is an amazing book," observed novelist Susan Fromberg Schaeffer. "Written before psychoanalysis came into being, "Villette" is nevertheless a psychoanalytic work--a psychosexual study of its heroine, Lucy Snowe. Written before the philosophy of existentialism was formulated, the novel's view of the world can only be described as existential. . . . Today it is read and discussed more intensely than Charlotte Bronte's other novels, and many critics now beleive it to be a true master-piece, a work of genius that more than fulfilled the promise of "Jane Eyre."" Indeed, Virginia Woolf judged "Villette" to be Bronte's "finest novel."

Jane Eyre is a poor young teacher who goes to work for the rich Mr Rochester. She loves him and wants to marry him and he loves Jane too, but he hides a terrible secret which will bring them both gre

Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre erupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the world's most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work "of great genius." Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Bronte's masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern, Jane Eyre endures as one of the world's most beloved novels. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes newly written explanatory notes.

Orphaned into cold charity at the hands of her rich cousins and, later, at Lowood Asylum, Jane escapes to take up a position as governess to the young ward of Mr. Rochester. Their love affair, Jane's discovery of Rochester's secret-hideously concealed in the attic of Thornfield Hall-and her desperate flight, are told in a drama of passionate intensity whose pace never slackens. Jane Eyre is a love story with a happy ending, rare in its time for its sympathetic portrayal of the love of a married man for another woman. It is, as Thackeray said, 'The masterwork of a great genius'."

Jane Eyre is a poor young teacher who goes to work for the rich Mr Rochester. She loves him and wants to marry him. He loves Jane too but he has a terrible secret which will bring them both great sadness. Jane Eyre is widely regarded as one of the finest novels in the English language. A powerful, timeless tale of love, written in 1847.

Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she hopes she has found both at once. But the sound of strange laughter, late at night, behind a locked door, warns her that her troubles are only beginning.