Jane Eyre (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Charlotte Brontë's first published novel, Jane Eyre was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847. Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. How she takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr Rochester and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage are elements in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally accorded to her sex in Victorian society.
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A book I've read several times over the years and have gone through various different thoughts about it, ranging from boredom to total enjoyment.[return][return]Jane is an unloved child. Left orphaned at a young age, she is sent to stay with her aunt and cousins. Her aunt (by marriage) is a weak woman, who dotes on her wild and willful son, barely tolerates her daughters and hates her niece. As soon as she can, Jane is packed off to Lowood, a "christian" school, that it turn neglets the physical care of it's pupils int he belief it's looking after their souls.[return][return]After a fatal bout of TB hits the school - and Jane's best friend is killed - the school is investigated and turned around. Jane stays there first as a pupil and then as a teacher until she gets the nerve to leave.[return][return]She gets a job looking after the "ward" of a Mr Rochester who is infrequently seen. When he does arrive, he is a moody soul, prone to bouts of silence and uneven temprement.[return][return]However, he soon persuades Jane to marry him, and it's on their wedding day that she learns the truth about both Mr Rochester and the secrets that have been kept in the house.[return][return]She escapes before the marriage can be completed, and by luck ends up at the steps of a brother and two sisters who take her in. As coincidence should have it, they are distant relations. She is made another marriage offer, but does not take it up, as she realises that he does not love her and only wants a companion to treat as a sister on his missionary [return]trip.[return][return]Jane finds out that she has inherited some money from another uncle (her aunt previously announcing that Jane had died). She shares her money with her cousins, preventing the girls from having to go into service, but not preventing the man from going abroad.[return][return]One evening she is woken by a dream, where she thinks Rochester has called for her. She returns to find that the place has been burnt, Rochester has been left blind and in need of help. She marries him and slowly his eyesight begins to return.