Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. 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 released 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,...
2) Villette
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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The Professor (1857) is English writer Charlotte Brontë's first novel. Rejected by several publishing houses, Brontë shelved the novel in order to write her masterpiece Jane Eyre (1847). After her death, The Professor was edited by Brontë's widower, Arthur Bell Nichols, who saw that the novel was published posthumously. Based on Brontë's experience as a student and teacher in Brussels-which similarly inspired her novel Villette-The Professor is...
4) Shirley
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.' Considered one of her less well-known novels, Shirley is Charlotte Brontë's only historical work, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Wealthy and independent, Shirley is very different from her friend Caroline who has few...
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Life and works of the sisters Brontë volume 6
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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When Helen Graham and her young son move into Wildefell Hall, her neighbor Gilbert Markham finds himself drawn to the woman, but when gossip about Helen's reclusive behavior circles the village, Gilbert begins to wonder if his trust in her is misplaced.
9) Jane Eyre
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Acclaim Books
Pub. Date
c1996
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English
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Presents a cartoon version of Brontë's story about a young woman's struggle for survival in nineteenth-century English society, and features essays on the author, background, theme, characters, and significance of the work
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell by Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë
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11) Amazon Kindle
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Amazon.com
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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The Kindle is a "convenient portable reading device with the ability to wirelessly download books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers--Publisher website.
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