书名：Jane Eyre简爱
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1040
作者：Charlotte Brontë
出版社名称：Penguin English Library
出版时间：2012
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141198859
商品尺寸：12.9 x2.7x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：560

Jane Eyre《简爱》是英国十九世纪女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特的成名作及代表作，这是一部具有自传色彩的作品，同时也是夏洛蒂·勃朗特“诗意的生平”的写照。本书适合英语专业及对经典英语文学作品、自传类小说感兴趣的读者。
推荐理由：
1.《简爱》全书构思精巧，情节波澜起伏，给读者制造出一种阴森恐怖的气氛，而又不脱离一个中产阶级家庭的背景。
2.对于一位“灰姑娘式”人物奋斗史的成功刻画，女性文学的代表作品；
3.此版本为Penguin English Library 版本，增加注释板块（Notes），并附伊莱恩·肖沃尔特版赏析，有助于读者理解小说内容。
Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847 under the pen name “Currer Bell.” 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. 

在19世纪中叶英国偏远的乡村，女主人公简爱是个孤儿，从小寄养在舅母家中，受尽百般欺凌。后来进了慈善学校，灵魂和肉体都经受了苦痛的折磨，但她以顽强的意志完成了学业，成绩优异。为了追求独立的生活，她应聘在桑菲尔德府任家庭教师。由于志趣相同，和主人真诚相爱，历经磨难，终于和自己心爱的人在一起。
Jane Eyre is the heart-wrenching story of a young girl saddled with both a cruel aunt and a bitter upbringing at Lowood School. Her soul not broken from these encounters, she becomes governess to the children of the handsome Mr. Rochester, with whom she falls deeply in love, but the dark secrets of Rochester’s past and outside influence threaten to swallow their budding romance.

夏洛蒂·勃朗特（Charlotte Brontë，1816-1855），英国小说家、诗人，“勃朗特三姐妹”之一。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•勃朗特以Currer Bell为笔名出版长篇小说Jane Eyre《简爱》，轰动文坛。其他作品有：Shirley《谢利》、Villette《维莱特》和The Professor《教师》等。
Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works (including her best known novel,Jane Eyre) under the pen name Currer Bell.

Preface前言
Jane Eyre《简爱》正文
Notes注释
“Jane Eyre” by Elaine Showalter伊莱恩·肖沃尔特版赏析

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 outdoor exercise was now out of the question.
I 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.
The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mamma 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.”
“What does Bessie say I have done?” I asked.
“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.”
A small breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room, I slipped in there. It contained a bookcase; 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 crosslegged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.