{"product_id":"jane-eyre-isbn-9780679783329","title":"Jane Eyre","description":"\u003cb\u003eIntroduction by Diane Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCommentary by G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Rigby, George Saintsbury, and Anthony Trollope\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Read\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Brontë’s \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e erupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the world’s most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work “of great genius.” Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Brontë’s masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern, \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre \u003c\/i\u003eendures as one of the world’s most beloved novels.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIncludes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide\u003c\/b\u003e\"At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Virginia Woolf\u003cb\u003eDiane Johnson \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of many books, including the bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eLe Divorce, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a 1997 National Book Award finalist, and \u003ci\u003eLe Mariage\u003c\/i\u003e.There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, 'She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner,—something lighter, franker, more natural as it were—she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'What does Bessie say I have done?' I asked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Jane, I don't like cavillers or questioners: besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. Be seated somewhere; and until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA small breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room. I slipped in there. It contained a book-case: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFolds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day. At intervals, while turning over the leaves of my book, I studied the aspect of that winter afternoon. Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near, a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable blast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI returned to my book—Bewick's History of British Birds: the letter-press thereof I cared little for, generally speaking; and yet there were certain introductory pages that, child as I was, I could not pass quite as a blank. They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of 'the solitary rocks and promontories' by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoils round the naked, melancholy isles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePours in among the stormy Hebrides.'","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302032429285,"sku":"NP9780679783329","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679783329.jpg?v=1767730341","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/jane-eyre-isbn-9780679783329","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}