Jane Eyre

Informationen zum Autor Charlotte Brontë was born in Yorkshire in 1816. As a child, she was sent to boarding school, where two of her sisters died; she was subsequently educated at home with her younger siblings, Emily, Branwell and Anne. As an adult, Charlotte worked as a governess and taught in a school in Brussels. Jane Eyre was first published in 1847 under the pen-name Currer Bell, and was followed by Shirley (1848), Villette (1853) and The Professor (posthumously published in 1857). In 1854 Charlotte married her father's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died in March of the following year. Klappentext Charlotte Bront¿1816-55) was born in Thornton! Yorkshire! one of an extraordinary group of siblings who spent their time immersed in reading and writing and between them went on to change the nature of English fiction. Publishing under the pseudonym Currer Bell! Charlotte was a great friend of Elizabeth Gaskell! who wrote her biography! as well as William Makepeace Thackeray and George Henry Lewes. Bront¿ novels Shirley and Villette are also published in the Penguin English Library. Zusammenfassung The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. This is a story of a defiant, fiercely intelligent woman who refuses to accept her appointed place in society and instead finds love on her own terms has become famous as one of the greatest romances ever written.

Product details

• Authors: CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Charlotte Brontë
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9780141198859
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119885-9
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: The Penguin English Library; PP PEL; Penguin Classics; The Penguin English Library; PP PEL
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Psychological, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Coming of age