Charlotte Bronte
1) Jane Eyre
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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Following the death of her uncle, the orphan Jane Eyre is sent to the Lowood School, where she grows into a confident and well-educated young woman. When Jane leaves to become a governess at Thornfield Hall, she falls in love with Mr. Rochester, her pupil's guardian. But a series of eerie and terrifying events threatens to destroy her happy future. Featuring gripping plot twists and surprises, Jane Eyre offers rich insight into the life of a woman...
2) Shirley
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Shirley is a woman of independent means: her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. The novel is set at a time of social and political ferment, featuring class disenfranchisement and the divisive effects of the Napoleonic Wars.
4) Jane Slayre
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Pub. Date
2010
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Another entry in the growing genre of horror mashups (ranging from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter), this volume takes Brontë's classic and turns the Reed family into vampires, Jane Eyre's classmates at Lowood into zombies, and Bertha Rochester into something far more dangerous than a madwoman. While Jane herself remains much the same, the supernatural additions prove highly amusing, turning the gothic elements of...
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