Jane Eyre·Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte's impassioned novel ins the love story of jane Eyre,a plain yet the arrogant,brooding Mr.Rochester.Published in1847,under th pseudonym of Currer Bell,the book heralded anew kind of heronie-one whose virtuousintegrity.keen intellectand class barriers to win equal stature with the man the loved.Hailed by william Makepeace Thackeray as"the masterwork of a great genius,"JANE EYRE is still regarded,over a century later,as one of the finest novels in English literature.

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), one of four surviving children of a clergyman, worked as a governess and teacher and wrote four novels. Michael Mason teaches at University College London and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century li