Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 

Product Details

Author:Charlotte Bronte(Author), Stevie Davies(Editor)

Paperback: 624 pages

Publisher: Penguin Classics; Reprint edition (29 Jun. 2006)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0141441143

ISBN-13: 978-0141441146

Product Dimensions: 13 x 2.7 x 19.7 cm

Book Description

《简.爱》（Jane Eyre）是英国女作家夏洛蒂.勃朗特创作的长篇小说，是一部具有自传色彩的作品。

作品讲述一位从小变成孤儿的英国女子在各种磨难中不断追求自由与尊严，坚持自我，最终获得幸福的故事。小说引人入胜地展示了男女主人公曲折起伏的爱情经历，歌颂了摆脱一切旧习俗和偏见，成功塑造了一个敢于反抗，敢于争取自由和平等地位的妇女形象。

A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis in Penguin Classics.

Charlotte Brontë tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr Rochester. As her feelings for Rochester develop, Jane gradually uncovers Thornfield Hall's terrible secret, forcing her to make a choice. Should she stay with Rochester and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions - even if it means leaving the man she loves? 

A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre dazzled readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom.

Review

I go back to Jane Eyre so often and it was one of the first books that made me think, 'This is me, in some deep way.

——Suzanne Vega

At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Bronte.

——Virginia Woolf

About the Author

夏洛蒂.勃朗特，英国小说家，生于贫苦的牧师家庭，曾在寄宿学校学习，后任教师和家庭教师。1847年，夏洛蒂.勃朗特出版知名的长篇小说《简.爱》，轰动文坛。1848年秋到1849年她的弟弟和两个妹妹相继去世。在死亡的阴影和困惑下，她坚持完成了《谢利》一书，寄托了她对妹妹艾米莉的哀思，并描写了英国早期自发的工人运动。她另有作品《维莱特》（1853年）和《教师》（1857年），这两部作品均根据其本人生活经历写成。夏洛蒂.勃朗特善于以抒情的笔法描写自然景物，作品具有浓厚的感情色彩。

Charlotte Bronte (1816-55), sister of Anne Bronte and Emily Bronte. Jane Eyre appeared in 1847 and was followed by Shirley (1848) and Vilette (1853). In 1854 Charlotte Bronte married her father's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died during her pregnancy on March 31, 1855 in Haworth, Yorkshire.