Jane Eyre

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English Library
CHARLOTTE BRONTE JANE EYRE
EDITED BYQ.D.LEAVIS
Since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre has never ceased to be one of the nnost widely read of English novels. Transmuted by the rare Bronte imagination, the romance of Jane and Rochester takeson a strange and unforgettable atmosphere that lifts it above the level of mere melodrama. But Charlotte Bronte intended more. She portrayed the refusal of a spirited and intelligent woman to accept her appointed place in society with unusual frankness and with a passionate sense of the dignity and needs of her sex. Q.D. Leavis'sintroduction brings out the revolutionary qualities of the book and its author's creation of something that would 'be true to the experience of the whole woman and . . . convey a sense of life's springs and undercurrents'.
THE PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY
Planned to take its place alongside the Penguin Classics, this series will eventually include attractive and authoritative editions of the... Tovább

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! he Penguin
English Library
CHARLOTTE BRONTE JANE EYRE
EDITED BYQ.D.LEAVIS
Since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre has never ceased to be one of the nnost widely read of English novels. Transmuted by the rare Bronte imagination, the romance of Jane and Rochester takeson a strange and unforgettable atmosphere that lifts it above the level of mere melodrama. But Charlotte Bronte intended more. She portrayed the refusal of a spirited and intelligent woman to accept her appointed place in society with unusual frankness and with a passionate sense of the dignity and needs of her sex. Q.D. Leavis'sintroduction brings out the revolutionary qualities of the book and its author's creation of something that would 'be true to the experience of the whole woman and . . . convey a sense of life's springs and undercurrents'.
THE PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY
Planned to take its place alongside the Penguin Classics, this series will eventually include attractive and authoritative editions of the best work to have appeared in English since the fifteenth century.
The following authors are so far represented: Jane Austen, Beckford, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Bunyan, Samuel Butler, Cobbett, Wilkie Collins, Congreve, Defoe, Dickens, George Eliot, Etherege, Fielding, Gissing, Samuel Johnson, Ben Jonson, Marlowe, Melville, Meredith, Middleton, Poe, Mary Shelley, Smollett, Sterne, Swift, Thackeray, Tourneur, Trollope, Twain, Walpole, Webster, and Wycherley.
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