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><br><br><b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br><br> 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.<br>  <br> <b>Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide</b>