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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

1847 · Novel · Gothic · Romance

Open Library OL1095427W

An orphan becomes a governess and refuses every arrangement that would make her less than a person. The house at Thornfield holds a secret the marriage plot cannot step around.

About the author

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a first-person account of work, conscience, and desire that refuses to treat the heroine as scenery. It remains one of the clearest voices in the nineteenth-century novel. More of this shelf for Charlotte Brontë.

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