Charlotte Bronte

A thorough and highly readable version of Charlotte Bront 's classic Jane Eyre, featuring: - The complete text of the book, formatted for comfortable reading - A detailed biography of Charlotte Bront - Summaries of the book's main sections - Discussion of Bront 's main themes - Guide to the book's main characters - Links to free audio versions of the book - Charlotte Bront 's most popular quotes - Bibliography - Jane Eyre in popular culture (film adaptations etc.)

Charlotte Bront famous masterpiece in an unabridged edition. 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. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than Victorian society traditionally allowed. With a captivating heroine full of yearning, the dangerous secrets she encounters, and the choices she finally makes, Charlotte Bronte's innovative, enduring and superbly told Victorian romantic novel with inspiration from and references to classic Gothic style continues to engage and provoke modern readers.

Shirley is an 1849 social novel with an embedded Victorian romantic drama by the English novelist Charlotte Bront . It was Bront 's second published novel after Jane Eyre. The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811-12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. The novel's popularity led to Shirley's becoming a woman's name. Before the publication of the novel, Shirley was an uncommon - but distinctly male - name and would have been an unusual name for a woman. Today it is regarded as a distinctly female name and an uncommon male name. While Bront was writing Shirley, three of her siblings died. Her brother Branwell died in September 1848, and her sister Emily fell ill and died in December. Bront resumed writing, but then her only remaining sibling, her sister Anne, became ill and died in May 1849. Robert Moore is a mill owner noted for apparent ruthlessness toward his employees - more than any other mill owner in town. He has laid off many of them, apparently indifferent to their resulting poverty. But in fact he has no choice, since the mill is deep in debt. Robert is very close to Caroline Helstone, who comes to his house to learn French from his sister, Hortense. Caroline worships Robert and he likes her too. Caroline meets Shirley, a landowner, an independent heiress whose parents are dead and who lives with Mrs. Pryor, an old governess. Robert's brother, Louis, works as a tutor for Shirley's uncle and is infatuated by her. Shirley is lively, cheerful, full of ideas about how to use her money and how to help people. Caroline and Shirley soon become very close friends. When Shirley refuses the baronet's offer of marriage, her uncle is enraged and has a fight with her. He then decides to leave and this means that Louis will have to leave too, which emboldens him enough to make his declaration - he proposes to Shirley, despite the difference in their relative situations.

After a family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe decides to travel from England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. Villette was Charlotte Bront 's fourth novel. In 1842 Charlotte Bront , at the age of 26, travelled to Brussels, Belgium, with her sister Emily. There they enrolled in a boarding school run by M. and Mme. Constantin H ger. In return for board and tuition, Charlotte taught English and Emily taught music. The sisters' time at the pensionnat was cut short when their aunt, Elizabeth Branwell, died in October 1842. Charlotte returned, alone, to Brussels in January 1843 to take up a teaching post at the pensionnat. Her second stay in Brussels was not a happy one. She became lonely and homesick, and fell in love with M. H ger, a married man. She finally returned to her family's rectory in Haworth, England, in January 1844. Villette is based on Charlotte's own experiences and can be read as partly autobiographic. George Eliot wrote that: "Villette is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power."

EDITION INTEGRALE EXCEPTIONNELLE Plongez dans la lecture d'un des plus grands chefs-d'oeuvre de la litt rature dans une tr s belle dition broch e. Charlotte Bront (1816-1855) tait une romanci re et po te Anglaise. Jane Eyre tait son premier roman publi , diffus en France en 1854 sous le titre "Jane Eyre ou M moires d'une gouvernante", avec le nom de plume Currer Bell. Son succ s est imm diat. Charlotte Bront est consid r e comme l'un des crivains les plus accomplis de la langue Anglaise. Orpheline d s son plus jeune ge, Jane Eyre vit une enfance malheureuse et presque sans amour. dix-huit ans elle devient institutrice au ch teau de Thornfield. Tomb e amoureuse de son riche propri taire, Edward Rochester, son int grit morale l'emp che de devenir sa ma tresse et elle ne reviendra vers lui que lorsque son pouse d c de. L'histoire de Jane Eyre transcende le m lodrame et d peint la qu te passionn e d'une vie plus grande et plus ais e que ce que la soci t Victorienne permet traditionnellement aux femmes. Ce roman captivant est un incontournable de la litt rature classique et ravira les lecteurs de tous ges. Retrouvez dans la m me collection broch e, un chef-d'oeuvre de la soeur de Charlotte Bront , dit par Atlantic Editions: Les Hauts de Hurlevent par Emily Bront

The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Bront . It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in 1857. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth, and is a first-person narrative from his perspective. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a professor at an all-girls school. The story starts off with a letter William has sent to his friend Charles, detailing his refusal to his uncle's proposals to become a clergyman, as well as his first meeting with his rich brother Edward. Seeking work as a tradesman, William is offered the position of a clerk by Edward. However, Edward is jealous of William's education and intelligence and treats him terribly. By the actions of the sympathetic Mr. Hunsden, William is relieved of his position and gains a new job at an all-boys boarding school in Belgium. The novel is based upon Charlotte Bront 's experiences in Brussels, where she studied as a language student and was a teacher in 1842.

Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Bront . It was published on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its title character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalisation of the action-the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility, and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry-Jane Eyre revolutionised the art of fiction. Charlotte Bront has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust.

The story of the ill-fated love of Catherine Earnshaw for the dark and brooding Heathcliff is set on the bleak Yorkshire moors in the north of England. Abridged by John Kennett, this edition contains notes, a glossary and a free audiobook.

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EXCEPTIONAL UNABRIDGED EDITION Immerse in an enthralling story you will never forget Charlotte Bront (1816-1855) was an English novelist and poet. Despite her woman status and lack of financial means, she managed to publish her poems - and those of her sisters - under male names. Charlotte Bront has been called the "first historian of the private consciousness" and is considered today as one of the English language's most accomplished novelists. Jane Eyre was first published in 1847 under the pen name "Currer Bell" - as "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography". 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. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than Victorian society traditionally allowed. Read all the greatest novels by the Bront sisters in a beautiful book series by "Atlantic Editions" Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bront

A deluxe Harper Perennial Legacy Edition, with an introduction from Mallory Ortberg, New York Times best-selling author of Texts from Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte's final and most autobiographical novel-even more critically acclaimed than Jane Eyre during its time-is a brilliant story of repressed passion and unrequited love in the fictional French town of Villette Lucy Snowe is a young woman alone in the world after a terrible event of which she never speaks. With no home, no family, and no prospects, she sets out on her own to the small French town of Villette, where she finds work as a governess at a boarding school for girls. When a handsome doctor from her past appears in Villette, Lucy believes she may at last be free of loneliness-if her rigorous self-control doesn't conceal her true feelings. Based on Charlotte Bronte's own experiences at a boarding school in Belgium, Villette is an intense psychological portrait of its heroine, a woman who so strenuously tries to hide her passions that she cannot help but reveal them.

Questo ultimo romanzo di Charlotte Bronte da alcuni considerato il suo capolavoro; da molti la sua opera pi matura sia come contenuti che come modernit di scrittura. Villette il nome di una citt immaginaria del continente dove una giovane donna inglese approda "in cerca di fortuna", si potrebbe dire, se in realt la sua non fosse quasi una scelta obbligata, intrapresa per la necessit di sopravvivere e per la fuga da un deserto affettivo. "Potrei fare anche la sguattera pur di non fare l'istitutrice in una casa privata" sostiene la protagonista, ripetendo una convinzione gi espressa dall'autrice nell'altro suo romanzo, Shirley. Dunque Lucy, la protagonista, decide di impegnarsi come governante in un pensionato e presto diventa insegnante. Il romanzo di formazione al femminile segue cos una linea gi tracciata negli scritti dell'autrice, anche se i sentimenti, le convinzioni, vengono qui espressi pi appassionatamente che nel passato. E se alcune pagine di questo libro sembreranno al lettore pervase di rabbia e pregiudizi contro la chiesa cattolica, "Roma", i "Papisti", allora che pensi all'infanzia e alla vita della scrittrice, allevata da un padre che era un severo pastore protestante, scrittore egli stesso di poemetti religiosi, educata, orfana di madre, in un collegio religioso, mortificata nella sua fame di cultura e di esperienze a causa della sua povert . Forse il lettore potr allora trovarsi d'accordo con Virginia Woolf nel pensare che " evidente che la rabbia ha intaccato l'integrit della romanziera Charlotte Bronte; ella ha trascurato la narrazione, alla quale avrebbe dovuto attenersi fedelmente, per dar sfogo a qualche suo personale risentimento segreto;al ricordo di essere stata defraudata della parte di esperienza che le era dovuta, costretta a marcire in un presbiterio, rammendando calzini, quando invece avrebbe voluto girare libera per il mondo. La sua indignazione ha sviato la sua immaginazione e noi percepiamo lo sbandamento... proprio come percepiamo costantemente una certa acredine, risultato dell'oppressione subita, una sofferenza sotterranea che cova sotto la passione, un rancore che contrae i suoi libri, per quanto splendidi, in uno spasmo di dolore." Ma il libro ripaga il lettore con la sua intensit l'autrice vi espone la sua anima pi completamente che nelle altre opere, e il sapere che quella "felicit terrena" tanto desiderata e appena toccata doveva realizzarsi e svanire prematuramente, per la sua morte, due anni dopo la pubblicazione del libro, rende l'opera ancora pi significativa, nel quadro della vita della scrittrice . Non resta che dire, con le sue stesse parole che "Dio ama coloro che sono sinceri" e che il suo obiettivo di essere sincera con se stessa e di "saldare i conti con la propria vita, senza scrivere nella colonna delle gioie ci che invece va scritto nella colonna delle miserie" stato sicuramente seguito con dedizione in questo lungo romanzo in prima persona.