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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Listen to on Audible and was completely drawn in. I love this story, the writing, characters and setting.
Loved the story, but the language of that period just goes on and on. If I had been reading and not listening, I might have given up.
A beautiful story that talks against a society reigned by patriarchy and power. Jan Eyre is the perfect example of book that tries to talk against the society of its time, I think, books that want to give messages to humanity, need to study this book. This book is the example of how not to force a change in society, but to try to make it with small steps, knowing that time will change them.
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