By Charlotte Brontë, Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by means of Joyce Carol Oates.
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Orphaned into the loved ones of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, topic to the tough regime at Lowood charity university, Jane Eyre still emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the put up of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the obstacle to their lawful marriage in a narrative that transcends melodrama to painting a woman's passionate look for a much broader and richer lifestyles than Victorian society usually allowed. With a heroine jam-packed with craving, the harmful secrets and techniques she encounters, and the alternatives she ultimately makes, Charlotte Bronte's cutting edge and enduring romantic novel maintains to interact and galvanize readers.
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned younger girl accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield corridor, a rustic property owned by way of the mysteriously distant Mr. Rochester.
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I would also like to thank Dan Franklin, Pascal Cariss and Jason Arthur at Jonathan Cape. Pieces in this book were compiled by Professor James Diedrick. I gratefully salute his skill and acuity. R. Leavis and Lionel Trilling, and on lesser figures like Ian Robinson and Denis Donoghue). 'Literature and society' was, at one time, a phrase so much on everyone's lips that it earned itself an abbreviation: Lit & Soc. And Lit & Soc, I seemed to remember, had been for me a long-running enthusiasm. But when I leafed through the massed manuscripts I found only a handful of essays, all of them written, rather ominously, in the early Seventies (when I was in my early twenties).
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