Charlotte Brontë
1) Villette
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Villette, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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2) Shirley
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Following the dramatic romance of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte intended Shirley to be a 'salutary' change. Set in Yorkshire during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, the novel articulates the social realities of economic hardship, the Luddite riots, dissatisfaction with the government and an inadequate Church. In the foreground of these concerns, a mill-owner, Robert Moore, in pursuit of financial security, ignores the suffering of his workers to such...
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The Professor (1857) is English writer Charlotte Brontë's first novel. Rejected by several publishing houses, Brontë shelved the novel in order to write her masterpiece Jane Eyre (1847). After her death, The Professor was edited by Brontë's widower, Arthur Bell Nichols, who saw that the novel was published posthumously. Based on Brontë's experience as a student and teacher in Brussels-which similarly inspired her novel Villette-The Professor is...
4) Jane Eyre
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El libro es innovador en la forma de pensar y de actuar de la protagonista, Jane Eyre, y en su forma de ver el mundo. Es considerado por muchos como una de las novelas precursoras del feminismo y en su época fue muy polémico debido a esta actitud.--Wikipedia la enciclopedia libre.
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote...
5) Jane Eyre
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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic, ever since...
6) Jane Eyre
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Explore Charlotte Bronte's world full of shocking secrets, captivating characters, and dark romance in Jane Eyre.
Jane Eyre is the heart-wrenching story of a young girl saddled with both a cruel aunt and a bitter upbringing at Lowood School. Despite the terrible circumstances life has given Jane, her soul not broken from these encounters, and she becomes governess to the children of the handsome Mr. Rochester.
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You may think you know the story. Penniless orphan Jane Eyre begins a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester -- and, Reader, she marries him. Or does she? Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which all is not as it seems, a certain gentleman is hiding more than skeletons in his closets, and orphan Jane Eyre, aspiring author Charlotte Bronte, and supernatural investigator Alexander...
8) Jane Eyre
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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
10) Jane Eyre
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Story of a misunderstood and mistreated orphan who grows up to be a strong willed woman. She takes the job of governess at an estate, comes to love and be loved by the master of the house and they nearly marry, but the existence of his insane wife stops the wedding. She leaves, finds family, his estate burns down, his wife dies and he is blinded. She returns to tend and love him.
11) Jane Eyre
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When orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she's intrigued by her brooding, wealthy employer, Rochester. His dark moods and the strange occurrences in the house lead her to discover a terrible secret that he had hoped to hide from her forever.
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Here you will find the following works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Austen, Jane: "Northanger Abbey"
Benson, E. F.: "Caterpillars"
Bierce, Ambrose: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Blackwood, Algernon: "The Listener"
Blackwood, Algernon: "The Willows"
Brontë, Charlotte: "Jane Eyre"
Brontë, Charlotte: "Villette"
Brontë, Emily: "Wuthering Heights"
Chambers, Robert W.: "The Repairer of Reputations"
Collins, Wilkie: "The Woman...