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Universally acknowledged as one of the most popular and brilliant books ever written, "Jane Eyre" is Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece, often listed with Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" as among the finest romance novels ever published. The story follows the hardscrabble life of its eponymous lead character, Jane Eyre, who is orphaned at a young age and forced to live under the rule of her heartless Aunt Reed and her equally cruel children.

A blistering criticism of the literary world in which she lived, Charlotte Brontë's "The Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells" contains two fascinating and insightful essays by the author of "Jane Eyre" addressing her late sisters, Emily and Anne's writing careers (Emily wrote "Wuthering Heights," Anne created "Agnes Grey" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall").

Questi racconti fantastici rappresentano i primi esperimenti letterari di un'ancora giovanissima Charlotte Brontë. Con personaggi e ambientazioni memorabili, tra fantasia e una più che vivida rappresentazione delle dure condizioni di vita dei bambini della propria epoca, la grande autrice di "Jane Eyre" assembla una serie di racconti insieme vivaci e commoventi. Umani, insomma, a trecentosessanta gradi. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) nasce a Thornton, figlia di un pastore protestante e di un'insegnante.

Charlotte Brontë's great masterpiece of English prose has lost nothing over the passing of the time since it was written. The story of a young girl who battles against all the odds to find love and become successful, in spite of all the challenges of class, poverty, and society facing her.... Written during the Victorian era, its lessons are still relevant for women and girls today! This version has all the French and German passages narrated in English for the easier understanding of the modern listener.