Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

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A beautiful hardback for the price of a paperback. White's Pocket Classics offer the best-loved classics in an irresistible small hardback with original illustrations embossed on the covers and all the features of a fine edition -- coloured endpapers, marker ribbon, illustrated title pages and new typesetting -- combining the best contemporary design with the luxury of a hardback and introductions by today's popular authors, to make the most appealing classics available at a paperback price and a perfect gift. Jane Eyre was voted by readers as one of the top three most precious books of all time in a recent World Book Day survey. This edition includes a selection of the sensational reviews on Jane Eyre's original publication.

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• an unforgettable classic

  Reviewed by Marianne V. | see all reviews by Marianne V.

  10/07/2011

  Jane Eyre is Charlotte Brontes first novel, published under the pen name of Currer Bell. Jane Eyre, orphaned at a very young age, suffers at the hands of her aunt and cousins when her maternal uncle dies. At the age of ten, she is sent to a charity boarding school, where her life is also filled with privation until an outbreak of typhus exposes the austere measures imposed by the manager of the school. At the age of eighteen, she leaves the school to become a governess to Mr Edward Fairfax Rochesters ward, Adle. Here, Jane seems to find happiness: beneath Mr Rochesters moody exterior, there appears to be kindness and perhaps even love? But further events may destroy her chance at happiness.
  The use of words that seem to be nowadays obsolete, such as: unclose (doors etc); undraw (curtains); undeceive; benignant; show how much can change in a language in a mere 200 years. Described as a classic, it is easy to see why Jane Eyre is one of the most unforgettable of English novels.
  
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