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Book SynopsisA beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL
As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield Hall promises a kind of freedom. But Thornfield is a house full of secrets, its master a passionate, tormented man, and before long Jane faces her greatest struggle in a choice between love and self-respect.
'A revolutionary work of fiction.' Tanya Sweeney, The Irish Independent
VINTAGE CLASSICS BRONTE SERIES - beautiful editions, three iconic stories, three extraordinary women.
Trade ReviewA beautiful gift, and perfect gems for bookworms. * So Darling *
At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë -- Virginia Woolf
Jane Eyre's suspense-laden, melodramatic plot - featuring child cruelty and attempted bigamy, as well as the celebrated madwoman - explains much of its appeal...
Jane Eyre is a book into which generations of readers have escaped. And yet it seems to provide something far more sustaining than the escapist fantasy... Her technical skill at writing the self in a first-person narrative is supreme, her words carefully chosen -- Lucasta Miller * Guardian *
Charlotte Bronte was surely a marvellous woman. If it could be right to judge the work of a novelist from one small portion of one novel [
JE], and to say of an author that he is to be accounted as strong as he shows himself to be in his strongest morsel of work, I should be inclined to put Miss Bronte very high indeed. I know of no interest more thrilling than that which she has been able to throw into the characters of Rochester and the governess, in the second volume of
Jane Eyre -- Anthony Trollope
Great genius -- William Makepeace Thackeray
