Charlotte Brontë
1) Jane Eyre
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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic, ever since...
2) Villette
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With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully...
3) Shirley
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Following the dramatic romance of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte intended Shirley to be a 'salutary' change. Set in Yorkshire during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, the novel articulates the social realities of economic hardship, the Luddite riots, dissatisfaction with the government and an inadequate Church. In the foreground of these concerns, a mill-owner, Robert Moore, in pursuit of financial security, ignores the suffering of his workers to such...
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The Professor, by Charlotte Brontë, is a remarkable exploration of ambition, identity, and resilience, themes that resonate deeply in today's society. Set in the 19th century, the novel follows William Crimsworth, an Englishman who rejects a life of servitude to his wealthy relatives and seeks independence and success on his own terms. William's journey takes him to Belgium, where he becomes a teacher and grapples with cultural displacement, professional...
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You may think you know the story. Penniless orphan Jane Eyre begins a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester -- and, Reader, she marries him. Or does she? Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which all is not as it seems, a certain gentleman is hiding more than skeletons in his closets, and orphan Jane Eyre, aspiring author Charlotte Bronte, and supernatural investigator Alexander...
8) Jane Eyre
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Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn...secrets that could destroy her happiness.
9) Jane Eyre
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When orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she's intrigued by her brooding, wealthy employer, Rochester. His dark moods and the strange occurrences in the house lead her to discover a terrible secret that he had hoped to hide from her forever.
10) Jane Eyre
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A fine exclusive edition of one of literature's most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping.
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is now available in an affordable softcover edition, featuring striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for classic fiction lovers, readers in high-school or college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges...
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These heart-soaring tales of romance and tragedy are widely considered four of the finest novels in English literature. Wuthering Heights is an immortal story of love and obsession on the stormy Yorkshire moors. The fate of the Earnshaw family is forever changed when they adopt a dark-skinned orphan boy named Heathcliff. As the years pass, Heathcliff and young Catherine Earnshaw fall deeply in love, but their passion cannot survive the pressures of...
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This Audiobook contains the following works : 1. 1984 by George Orwell Start at Chapters 1 2. Animal Farm by George OrwellSt art at Chapters 26 3. The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason Start at Chapters 36 4. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain Start at Chapters 55 5. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Start at Chapters 100 6. Persuasion by Jane Austen Start at Chapters 153 7. The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft Start...
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This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane: Emma
Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
Carroll, Lewis: Alice's...
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Here you will find the following works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Austen, Jane: "Northanger Abbey"
Benson, E. F.: "Caterpillars"
Bierce, Ambrose: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Blackwood, Algernon: "The Listener"
Blackwood, Algernon: "The Willows"
Brontë, Charlotte: "Jane Eyre"
Brontë, Charlotte: "Villette"
Brontë, Emily: "Wuthering Heights"
Chambers, Robert W.: "The Repairer of Reputations"
Collins, Wilkie: "The Woman...
