Jane Eyre

<b>Introduction by Diane Johnson</b><br> <b>Commentary by G. K. Chesterton Virginia Woolf Elizabeth Rigby George Saintsbury and Anthony Trollope</b> <p/><b>Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's <i>The Great American Read</i></b> <p/> Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847 Charlotte Brontë's <i>Jane Eyre</i> 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 <i>Jane Eyre </i>endures as one of the world's most beloved novels. <p/> <b>Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide</b>