Jane Eyre (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions)
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ISBN: 0062085638 / Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, June 2011
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.
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<p><strong>A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick</strong></p><p><strong>Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece of gothic romance—an epic and intimate narrative of love, tragedy, and one woman’s struggle to find happiness in the face of overwhelming hardship</strong></p><p><em>Jane Eyre</em> follows its fearless heroine’s quest to find her place in the world. Orphaned as a child, Jane suffers cruelty and abuse at the hands of her aunt and cousins. Banished to the Lowood school, she forges a path for herself and thrives—in spite of loneliness, poverty, and hunger. When the opportunity for work as a governess sends her to Thornfield Hall, she meets its owner, Edward Rochester, the man who will forever alter the course of her young life.</p><p>At home for the first time, she begins to fall deeply, irrevocably in love with Mr. Rochester, nurtured by his near-spiritual adoration. But the manor is rife with mysteries, and one, bound to the attic of Thornfield, will threaten Jane’s hard-won happiness in ways she had never imagined.</p><p>A tale of fire, storms, and dark secrets, <em>Jane Eyre</em> has endured as an enthrallingly timeless classic.</p>
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