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9788175993655: Jane Eyre

Synopsis

From a tragic childhood when she was abused physically and emotionally by her inhuman Aunt Reed to a youth when she falls in love with Edward Rochester - her Byronic employer at Thornfield where she works as a governess - only to learn on their wedding day about his lunatic wife, the passionate and principled Jane Eyre endures many a hardships and oppressions. And after she leaves Thornfield, reduced to destitution, the Rivers family becomes her benefactor. What happens when St John Rivers, her cold clergyman-cousin, proposes to her ? Will she accept his proposal or return to Rochester ?

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À propos de l'auteur

Born in Yorkshire, England in April 1816, Charlotte Bronte was the third of the six children of Patrick and Maria Bronte. The Professor, Charlotte's first manuscript, was not accepted by publishers. It was published posthumously in 1857. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography was published in October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co of London, under the pen name 'Currer Bell'. Jane Eyre (1847) with its depiction of feminism, achieved immediate success. Shirley, her second novel, was published in 1849 and in 1853 appeared Villette, her fourth novel. Charlotte died in March 1855, aged thirty-eight, with her unborn child.

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