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The loneliness and cruelty of Jane’s childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. It lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect.
The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.
Here you will find the complete novels of the Brontë Sisters:
- Agnes Grey, by Anne Brontë
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
- Shirley, by Charlotte Brontë
- Villette, by Charlotte Brontë
- The Professor, by Charlotte Brontë
- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
"The Brontës' gifted biographer provides us with another superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel. For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre was written, illuminating modern commentary, and the novel itself in an authoritative text."—Fred Kaplan, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
-The third-edition text (1848), the last corrected by Charlotte Brontë, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory footnotes.
-"Contexts," highlighting Jane Eyre as a bildungsroman through diary entries and letters by the author about her experiences as a student, teacher, and governess as well as her feelings about friendship, love, and writing.
-Five major critical interpretations by Virginia Woolf, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Susan Meyer, Carla Kaplan, and Kelly A. Marsh.
-A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography
The novel's popularity led to Shirley's becoming a woman's name. The title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the publication of the novel Shirley was an uncommon but distinctly male name.[1] Today it is regarded as a distinctly female name."
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Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Villette hides in Brussels, where in the 1840s the future writer experienced a forbidden love for a married man, Professor Constantin Héger. The main character of the novel, Lucy Snowe, deprived of a future in England, decides to take fate into her own hands and sets off for Europe.
By chance, at night, she finds a boarding house for girls located in the building of a former nunnery. Having got a job here, at first she leads a colorless life as an English teacher. However, she soon notices that her every move in this place is being watched by someone. Trying to solve the puzzle, she becomes entangled in events on the borderline of the material and spiritual world ...
About the author:
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet towards the end of her life. As she grew up, the young woman was at one point a teacher at the very school she had previously studied at, and also spent a couple years as a governess. Charlotte decided to tell her unique story through the fictional character of Jane Eyre, and later wrote two other novels as well. Dying at the young age of 38, Charlotte Bronte never got to experience the fame of her works. She is now considered one of the most notable Victorian women novelists.
Through the heartache, misfortunes and occasional successes, the tale of Jane Eyre allows the life and reputation of Charlotte Bronte to live on till this day. Written for those who love to read, listen to a good story and find themselves absorbed into the tales of the past, Jane Eyre is a must read for every novel enthusiast. The unique tale provides life lessons, guidance, and eye opening viewpoints to any reader that is ready to uncover and receive such underlying messages.
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It is only at age ten that Jane managed to get out of her aunt’s house, but her quality of life does not improve much. She is sent to Lowood, a charity school directed by the cruel Mr. Brocklehurst, who does not hesitate in making the pupils face hunger, cold and even physical punishments in what he considers a chance to 'save their souls'.
Our protagonist remains at Lowood for eight years, six as a pupil and two as a teacher. After that, she decides that it is time to find a new situation and advertises in a paper offering her services to educate children. The only answer she receives comes from a place called Thornfield, in Millcote, and is addressed by a Mrs. Fairfax, who hires her to be the governess of only one child.
Jane’s life in Thornfield Hall is more satisfactory that she could have expected. She likes Mrs. Fairfax, the housekeeper, and her little pupil Adele, who soon become very fond of her, too. Jane also gets to know Mr. Rochester, owner of Thornfield, with whom she develops a strange friendship that eventually turns into love. But it will be no long until she discovers that the unequal social positions and the difference of age are not the biggest obstacles that their relationship has to overcome. On the eve of their wedding a terrible secret comes out, tearing Jane away from everything she has ever known.
Vor dem Hintergrund der Arbeiterunruhen im englischen Yorkshire zur Zeit der industriellen Depression im frühen 19. Jahrhundert porträtiert Charlotte Brontë die Geschichte zweier junger Frauen und ihre Rollen in der damaligen Gesellschaft.
Charlotte Brontë, 1816-55, begann bereits als Kind mit ersten Schreibversuchen. Sie arbeitete als Lehrerin und Gouvernante und lebte für einige Zeit in Brüssel, wo sie ebenfalls als Lehrerin tätig war. Sie veröffentlichte ihre Werke zunächst unter dem männlichen Pseudonym Currer Bell. Erst kurze Zeit vor ihrem Tod gab sie ihre wahre Identität bekannt und genoss die allgemeine literarische Anerkennung.
Bei diesem erstmals als E-Book in deutscher Übersetzung herausgegebenen Roman handelt es sich um einen weiteren Klassiker von Charlotte Brontë, der bekannten Verfasserin von »Jane Eyre«. Dieses Buch verursachte die heutige weite Verbreitung des Namens »Shirley«, der früher ein männlicher und seltener Vorname war, und den man heute fast ausschließlich als weiblichen Vornamen kennt. Auf Grundlage der anonymen Übersetzung aus dem Jahr 1849 wurde dieser Klassiker modernisiert, vervollständigt, zum Teil neu übersetzt, in die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung übertragen und mit zahlreichen Fußnoten sowie Links zur Wikipedia versehen.
De Jane Eyre (1847), ciertamente una de las novelas más famosas de estos dos últimos siglos, solemos conservar la imagen ultrarromántica de una azarosa historia de amor entre una institutriz pobre y su rico e imponente patrón, todo en el marco truculento y misterioso de una fantasmagoría gótica. Y olvidamos que, antes y después de la relación central con el abismal, sardónico y volcánico señor Rochester, Jane Eyre tiene otras relaciones, otras historias: episodios escalofriantes de una infancia tan maltratada como rebelde, años de enfermedad y arduo aprendizaje en un tétrico internado, estaciones de penuria y renuncia en la más absoluta desolación física y moral, inesperados golpes de fortuna, e incluso remansos de paz familiar y nuevas –aunque engañosas- proposiciones de matrimonio. Olvidamos, en fin, que la novela es todo un libro de la vida, una confesión certera y severísima –rotundamente crítica- de un completo itinerario espiritual, y una exhaustiva ilustración de la lucha entre conciencia y sentimiento, entre principios y deseos, entre legitimidad y carácter, de una heroína que es la «llama cautiva» entre los extremos que forman su naturaleza.
Carmen Martín Gaite ha rescatado el vigor, la riqueza y la naturalidad expresiva de un texto un tanto desvirtuado por la popularidad de sus múltiples versiones. Gracias a su traducción, hecha ex profeso para esta edición, quien creyera conocer esta novela, al leerla de nuevo, más que recordarla, la descubrirá.
Charlotte Brontë nació en 1816 en Thornton (Yorkshire), tercera hija de Patrick Brontë y Maria Branwell. En 1820 el padre fue nombrado vicario perpetuo de la pequeña aldea de Haworth, en los páramos de Yorkshire, y allí pasaría Charlotte casi toda su vida. Huérfanos de madre a muy corta edad, los cinco hermanos Brontë fueron educados por una tía. En 1824, Charlotte, junto con sus hermanas Emily, Elizabeth y Maria, acudió a una escuela para hijas de clérigos. Elizabeth y Maria murieron ese mismo año, y Charlotte siempre lo atribuyó a las malas condiciones del internado. Es-tudiaría posteriormente un año en una escuela privada, donde ejerció como maestra; fue luego institutriz, y maestra de nuevo en un pensionado de Bruselas, donde en 1842 estuvo interna con Emily. De vuelta a Haworth, en 1846 consiguió publicar un volumen de Poesías con sus hermanas Emily y Anne, con el pseudónimo, respectivamente, de Currer, Ellis y Acton Bell. Su primera novela, El profesor, no encontró editor, y no sería publicada hasta 1857. Pero, como Currer Bell, publicó con éxito Jane Eyre (1847). En 1848, mientras morían a su alrededor Emily y Anne y su hermano Branwell, escribió Shirley (Alba clásica, nº XXX), que se publicaría al año siguiente. Su última novela fue Villette (1853). Charlotte se casó con el reverendo A. B. Nicholls un año antes de morir en 1855.
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