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A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a womans quest for freedom. This updated edition features a new introduction discussing the novels political and magical dimensions. Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivorqualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice. Should she stay with him whatever the consequences or follow her convictions, even if it means leaving her beloved?

With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the schools English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontës last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances.

Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.[citation needed]
Primarily a bildungsroman, Jane Eyre follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the Byronic master of Thornfield Hall. The focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility, and Jane Eyre revolutionised the art of fiction in the way that all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry. Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Proust and Joyce. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of Christian morality at its core, and is considered by many to be ahead of its time because of Jane's individualistic character and how the novel approaches the topics of class, sexuality, religion, and feminism.

《Jane Eyre(简爱)》讲述了这样一个故事：简·爱自幼父母双亡，投靠冷酷的舅母，但舅母无情地抛弃了她。她在一所慈善学校做了六年的学生和两年的教师。十八岁时，简·爱受聘到桑菲尔德府学当家庭教师，认识了主人罗切斯特。两人都被对方独特的气质和丰富的感情所吸引，于是不顾身份和地位的巨大差距深深相爱了。正当他们举行婚礼时，有人证明罗切斯特的前妻还活着。简·爱知道他们不可能有平等的婚姻，于是选择了离开。后来，简·爱意外遇见了她的表兄妹们，并从叔叔那里继承了一笔遗产。但她无法抵御对罗切斯特的刻骨思念，于是便回到了已经失去了财富、身体也遭到火灾严重摧残的罗切斯特身边，毅然跟他结婚。在爱的沐浴下，罗切斯特找回了幸福和健康。
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In this work the plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, but possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order which circumscribes her life and position.
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For a fan of Gothic romances, the opportunity to listen to a new recording of JANE EYRE is not to be passed up. British actress Juliet Stevenson gives a simply splendid narration. She gives clear voice to the spirited, intelligent, fiercely independent Jane and communicates the heroine's full range of emotions. Stevenson reads at a smooth, even pace, adding just the right amount of drama. If the new release of JANE EYRE at the movies moves many to take another look at the novel, Stevenson's masterful narration would be an excellent choice. C.R.A An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner.
Midwest Book Review
This tie-in edition of a classic joins a major motion picture from Miramax Films, which should appeal to a wider audience than normal due to its inclusion of feature art from the film. In this new contemporary edition the classic story comes alive.
About Author
Charlotte Bronte was born at Thornton, Yorkshire, on April 21, 1816. Her father, Patrick Bronte, became curate for life of the moorland parish of Haworth, Yorkshire, in 1820, and her mother, Maria Bronte, died the following year, leaving behind five daughters and a son who were cared for in the parsonage by their aunt, Elizabeth Branwell. The eldest daughters, Maria and Elizabeth, died in 1825 from tuberculosis contracted at the religious boarding school to which they (along with Charlotte and her younger sister Emily) had been sent. (All the Bronte children ultimately suffered from lung disease.)
Raised at home thereafter, Charlotte, Emily, their youngest sister, Anne, and brother, Branwell, lived in a fantasy world of their own making, drawing on their voracious reading of Byron, Scott, Shakespeare, The Arabian Nights, and gothic fiction, and writing elaborate poetic and dramatic cycles involving the histories of imaginary countries. Charlotte's early writings revolved around the kingdom of Angria, about which she wrote melodramatic tales of passion and revenge. She spent a year studying at Miss Wooler's school in Roe Head (later relocated to Dewsbury Moor), and went back there to teach from 1835 to 1838; subsequently she worked as a governess.
With Emily, Charlotte traveled in 1842 to study languages at a boarding school in Brussels; her close emotional attachment to her instructor, M. Heger, a married man, would later figure in her fiction. Charlotte and Emily went home after a year because of their aunt's death; Charlotte subsequently returned to Brussels for a year of teaching, 1843 to 1844. A joint collection of poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne—published pseudonymously as Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell—appeared in 1846. The three sisters had in the meantime each written a novel, of which Emily's Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey were accepted in 1847 for publication the following year. Charlotte's first novel, The Professor, based on her experiences in Brussels, was rejected by a series of publishers (it finally appeared posthumously in 1857).
Jane Eyre was published under Charlotte's pseudonym, Currer Bell, in 1847 and achieved commercial and critical success; it had gone through four editions by the time of Charlotte's death. Jane Eyre won high praises; William Makepeace Thackeray (who later became a friend) declared himself 'exceedingly moved and pleased,' and George Henry Lewes applauded its 'deep significant reality'; it was also criticized by some for the rebelliousness of its heroine and for what the Quarterly Review called 'coarseness of language and laxity of tone.'
During this period the Brontes underwent repeated tragedies. Branwell, despite his early promise, had been ravaged by the effects of drink and drugs, and when he found work as a tutor in the same household where Anne was a governess, his involvement with his employer's wife led to his dismissal; he died in September of 1848, followed three months later by Emily and the following year by Anne. Charlotte, the sole survivor, published two more novels, Shirley (1849), a novel of Yorkshire during the Napoleonic period, and Villette (1853), a further fictional exploration of her Brussels experiences. In 1850 she met the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, with whom she formed a close friendship; Gaskell later wrote the classic biography of her friend, The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857). Charlotte married her father's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls, in 1854, and died on March 31, 1855.
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从前，他们说不出心头的爱与相思，只将缠绵情愫寄予日月山海；从前，车马很慢，纸短情长。千里相思，尺绢寸纸上。
在上个世纪，他们给爱人写一封信，至少要两个星期才能收到，还要两个星期才能回信，那么，这四个星期，都是美好的；最懊恼的事情是错过了邮车，不得不派一辆快车去追；收到爱人的三页情书，要读上无数次……一封书信，就这样点亮了生活，甚至点亮了一生。书信使爱情在等待和距离中发酵，历久弥香。而马克·吐温、雨果、贝多芬、马克思、卡夫卡、弗洛伊德……这些名字你一定不陌生。他们也曾和你我一样，深陷爱情的漩涡无法自拔：被爱过，也被辜负过；甜蜜过，也绝望过。他们将这些或炽热、或缠绵、或忧郁、或痴狂的点滴情愫凝结成文字，讲与爱人，讲与今天的你我听。
于是，永恒的爱情再次鲜活，无情的时光变得温柔。
“最美情书系列”之《纸短情长》，精心收录了70余篇马克·吐温、雨果、贝多芬、马克思、卡夫卡、弗洛伊德等各领域世界名家写给爱人的书信篇目，配以过往旧事、泛黄老照片，为你打开一段又一段时光深处那些或热烈奔放，或勇敢执着，或缠绵深沉，或激昂向上的爱情故事，一观爱情在人生中的不同模样。
每一句暖心热烈的情话里，都闪烁着一颗火热的心。这颗心，充斥的不仅仅是醉人的爱情，更是生活的感悟、人生的追求和灵魂的成长。他们在对彼此的爱与付出中，成就了自我，成就了彼此，也成就了那个大师辈出、群芳风流的年代。
爱情是人类永恒的主题，情书是爱情最美的寄托。翻阅这些情书，见信如面，我们仿佛也顺着这字里行间流淌的情感之河，看到了爱情最好的存在形式。

Simplified Chinese edition of Jane Eyre, the Charlotte Bronte classic.

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14–18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is edited by Susan Cockcroft of Mackworth College, Derby.

The most cherished novel from each of England's talented sisters, in one gorgeously packaged volume The BrontA family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" and Emily's "Wuthering Heights" have won lofty places in the pantheon and stirred the romantic sensibilities of generations of readers. For the first time ever, Penguin Classics unites these two enduring favorites with the lesser known but no less powerful work by their youngest sister, Anne. Drawn from Anne's own experiences as a governess, "Agnes Grey" offers a compelling view of Victorian chauvinism and materialism. Its inclusion makes "The BrontA Sisters" a must-have volume for anyone fascinated by this singularly talented family.

《简•爱》讲述一位心地善良的女人简•爱追求自由、独立、爱情的故事。她自幼父母双亡，寄居在舅舅家，受尽舅母及表哥的欺侮。一个偶然的机会她进了一所慈善学校，在那里做了6年学生、两年教师。后来她登报求职，来到桑菲尔德庄园当家庭教师，进而与庄园主罗切斯特相爱。但是，正当他们在教堂准备结婚之时，一个不速之客打断了婚礼的进程，当众宣布罗切斯特已有妻子。尽管罗切斯特有其苦衷，但简还是离他而去。简在饥寒交迫中病倒了，被圣约翰牧师所救并收留，不久他们发现原来彼此是表兄妹。冥冥之中简觉得罗切斯特在召唤她，于是她离开圣约翰去找罗切斯特。此时的罗切斯特已双目失明，失去了一条臂膀，成了一个残疾人。但简对他的爱情坚贞不移，最终与他安静地举行了婚礼。简•爱与罗切斯特的爱情故事撼动了一代又一代人的心灵，本书尤其深受女性读者的热爱。

《简•爱》是一部脍炙人口的世界名著，也是英国十九世纪著名的女作家夏洛蒂•勃朗特的代表作品。是一部具有浓厚浪漫主义色彩的现实主义小说。主要描写了家庭教师简•爱与罗切斯特先生之间超越世俗、真挚热烈的爱情。主人公简•爱是一个心地纯良、善于思考又独立坚强的女性。童年和少女时期受尽磨难，但却性格倔强，勇敢追求属于自己的幸福。小说的笔法深情细腻，人物的心理刻画入木三分，将男女主人公曲折起伏的爱情经历描写得深情动人。简•爱这样一个看似柔弱却内心极具刚强韧性、敢于反抗和敢于争取自由和平等地位的女性形象长久以来成为无数女性心中的典范。

《简•爱》出版于一八四七年，作者为克服性别偏见带来的阻碍，出版时使用了柯勒•贝尔这个笔名。
在近两百年的时间里，《简·爱》长盛不衰。简·爱和罗彻斯特的故 事不仅仅是一个爱情故事，更是一个女性努力探索更广阔心灵的故事。
本版《简爱》由台湾知名翻译家陈锦慧女士翻译，收纳于磨铁经典第一辑“发光的女性”。本书收录资深媒体人郭玉洁撰写的长篇导读，从当下女性现状出发回望经典女性著作。

《简•爱(权威全译典藏版)》通过叙述孤女简•爱坎坷不平的人生经历，成功地塑造了一个出身贫寒、不甘受辱、敢于抗争、追求平等与幸福的女性形象。书中，简幼年父母双亡，寄居在舅妈家，备受歧视和虐待，后被舅妈送进慈善学校。长大成人后，简离开学校，到桑菲尔德庄园做家庭教师。经过一段时间的相处，简爱上了庄园主人罗切斯特。就在他们举行婚礼时，简才得知罗切斯特已有一个疯了的妻子。简不愿做别人的情妇，伤心地离开了桑菲尔德。后来，一个牧师向简求婚。简想起了罗切斯特，赶回了桑菲尔德，而此时的庄园已被烧成废墟，罗切斯特的妻子已死，罗切斯特双目失明。简毅然决定与罗切斯特共度一生……

Jane takes up a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. Her employer falls in love with her. But on their wedding morning Jane discovers that his past holds a dark secret and she flees, heartbroken.

With her final novel, Villette , Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette. The first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey - a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature.

In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.

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 published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Primarily of the Bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous heroine, 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 Brontë has been called the ‘first historian of the private consciousness’ and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel's exploration of classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism.

Charlotte Brontë’s impassioned novel is the love story of Jane Eyre, a plain yet spirited governess, and her employer, the arrogant, brooding Mr. Rochester. Published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell, the book heralded a new kind of heroine—one whose virtuous integrity, keen intellect, and tireless perseverance broke through class barriers to win equal stature with the man she loved. Hailed by William Makepeace Thackeray as “the masterwork of a great genius,” Jane Eyre is still regarded, over a century later, as one of the finest novels in English literature.

Bronte’s novel about a shy, quiet governess who becomes a tutor in a great house and falls in love with its lonely and mysterious master is one of the great classics of English literature. Unique in its attention to the thoughts and feelings of a female protagonist, Jane Eyre was ahead of its time as a proto-feminist text. When it was published in 1847, however, Bronte was attacked by critics for what they felt was anti-Christian sentiment in her unflinching critique of the oppressions of Victorian society.