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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Juvenile Fiction, Classics
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Juvenile Fiction, Classics Hardcover - 2004

by Charlotte Bronte


About this book

Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by the 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". 

Orphaned as a child, Jane felt like an outcast during her childhood. She was sent by her cruel aunt to a boarding school where she was met with further torment. After the devastating loss of a friend, she finds herself enrolled under a new headmaster at the Lowood School and finds her life drastically changed. She spends eight more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in love. Hard. But there is a terrifying secret inside the gloomy, forbidding Thornfield Hall…


From the publisher

He ran headlong at me: I felt him grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fear, and I received him in frantic sort. I don't very well know what I did with my hands, but he called me "Rat! Rat!" and bellowed out aloud. Aid was near him: Eliza and Georgiana had run for Mrs. Reed, who was gone upstairs: she now came upon the scene, followed by Bessie and her maid Abbot. We were parted: I heard the words -- "Dear! dear! What a fury to fly at Master John!" "Did ever anybody see such a picture of passion!" Then Mrs. Reed subjoined -- "Take her away to the red-room, and lock her in there." Four hands were immediately laid upon me, and I was borne upstairs. I resisted all the way. . . .

First Edition Identification

Smith, Elder & Co. published the First UK Edition, First Printing in London, 1847. This particular edition features a three-book set and was published under the pen name of “Currer Bell”. 

Harper & Brothers published the First US Edition, First Printing the following year in New York, 1848.

Details

  • Title Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Juvenile Fiction, Classics
  • Author Charlotte Bronte
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 436
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wildside Press
  • Date 2004-02
  • ISBN 9780809598946 / 0809598949
  • Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.13 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.87 cm)
  • Reading level 840
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC