Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Brontë, Paperback

Introduction by Diane Johnson
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Rigby, George Saintsbury, and Anthony Trollope

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre 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, Bront '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, Jane Eyre endures as one of the world's most beloved novels.

Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide

Author: Charlotte Bronte
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 11/14/2000
Pages: 752
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.18w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9780679783329
Age Range: 12-UP

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.9
Point Value: 33
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 709 / Jane Eyre (Unabridged) (English)

About the Author
Diane Johnson is the author of many books, including the bestselling novel Le Divorce, which was a 1997 National Book Award finalist, and Le Mariage.