简爱（英文原版）

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《简·爱》是部脍炙人口的作品、勿庸置疑的名著。英国十九世纪著名的女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特的代表作，当时人们普遍认为《简爱》是夏洛蒂·勃朗特“诗意的生平”的写照，是一部具有自传色彩的作品。一个有尊严和寻求平等的简·爱，这个看似柔弱而内心极具刚强韧性的女子也因为这部作品而成为无数女性心中的典范。 本书为全英文版。

 

《简爱（英文版）》是英国19世纪最出色的小说之一。人们普遍认为《简爱(英文版)》是夏洛蒂·勃朗特”诗意的生平”的写照，是一部具有自传色彩的作品。 小说一出现就在文坛引起了轰动，英国著名讽刺小说家萨克雷曾动情地说：“《简爱（英文版）》使我非常感动，我非常喜爱它。它是我能花好多天来读的第一部英 国小说。”《简爱(英文版)》之所以能够打动人心，并非以情节取胜，在作者对人性的描述中，我们隐约看到了自身卑劣或美丽的人性。在问世之后的一个半世纪 的今天，《简爱(英文版)》仍在世界各种语言中拥有众多的读者，根据这部小说改编的电影亦荣获奥斯卡金像奖。

CHAPTER 1
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question.

I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.

The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, “She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner — something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were — she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children.”

“What does Bessie say I have done?” I asked.

“Jane, I don’t like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. Be seated somewhere; and until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent.”