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&#146;s best-loved novels by PBS&#146;s&#160;<i>The Great American Read</i></b><br><br> Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847 Charlotte Bront&#235;&#146;s <i>Jane Eyre</i> erupted onto the English literary scene immediately winning the devotion of many of the world&#146;s most renowned writers including William Makepeace Thackeray who declared it a work &#147;of great genius.&#148; Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel Bront&#235;&#146;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&#146;s most beloved novels.<br> &#160;<br> <b>Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide</b>