Après une enfance éprouvante, Jane Eyre entre à 18 ans comme préceptrice au manoir de Thornfield Hall, pour s'occuper de la pupille du riche maître des lieux, Edward Rochester. Immédiatement conquise par le manoir perdu entre landes et bruyères, la jeune fille va égarement succomber au charme du sarcastique et ténébreux châtelain, malgré leur différence d'âge et de fortune. Des sentiments qui ne tarderont pas à être partagés. Mais Thornfield Hall et son maître abritent un lourd secret.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre est un roman sur fond autobiographique écrit en 1847 par Charlotte Brontë, sœur d'Émily Brontë, l'auteur des Hauts de Hurlevent. Jane, orpheline recueillie par sa tante Mme Reed, est maltraitée puis envoyée à l'internat. À dix huit ans, elle devient la préceptrice d'Adèle, pupille de M. Rochester. Commence alors une histoire d'amour impossible entre cet homme de quarante ans hanté par un lourd secret et Jane, qui finit par apprendre la vérité, et s'enfuit. Ce roman, qui met à mal le stéréotype de la femme victorienne – car ce n'est qu'une fois affranchie de la domination des hommes que l'héroïne pourra pleinement vivre sa vie et son amour – a connu un franc succès dès sa parution. C'est aujourd'hui un incontournable du patrimoine littéraire britannique.

"Villette" is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.

"Villette" was Charlotte Brontë's fourth novel; it was preceded by and is a reworking of the posthumously published "The Professor", her first novel, and then by "Jane Eyre" and "Shirley".

Villette

«Il ne m'était pas difficile de découvrir la meilleure manière de cultiver l'esprit de Frances, de satisfaire son âme altérée, de favoriser l'expansion de cette force intérieure que le froid et la sécheresse avaient paralysée jusqu'à présent ; une bienveillance continuelle cachée sous un langage austère et ne se révélant qu'à de rares intervalles par un regard empreint d'intérêt ou par un mot plein de douceur, un profond respect dissimulé sous un air impérieux, une certaine sévérité jointe à des soins assidus et dévoués, furent les moyens dont je me servis avec elle, et ceux qui convenaient le mieux à sa nature aussi fière que sensible.»

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Bronte sisters Anne, Charlotte, and Emily are among the most widely-read and best-loved nineteenth-century writers, and the themes of love, longing, and personal fulfillment come to life in their literary masterpieces. This special ebook edition includes all of the sisters' published works: Agnes Grey, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor by Charlotte Bronte, and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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"Jane Eyre" (originally published as "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography") is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.

Primarily of the "Bildungsroman" genre, "Jane Eyre" follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the Byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalisation of the action-the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility, and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry-"Jane Eyre" revolutionised the art of fiction. Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel's exploration of classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism.

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton. Her husband's family had been residents there for generations, and bore, indeed, the name of their birthplace-Bretton of Bretton: whether by coincidence, or because some remote ancestor had been a personage of sufficient importance to leave his name to his neighbourhood, I know not.

When I was a girl I went to Bretton about twice a year, and well I liked the visit. The house and its inmates specially suited me. The large peaceful rooms, the well-arranged furniture, the clear wide windows, the balcony outside, looking down on a fine antique street, where Sundays and holidays seemed always to abide-so quiet was its atmosphere, so clean its pavement-these things pleased me well.

Orpheline, Jane Eyre est recueillie à contrecoeur par une tante qui la traite durement et dont les enfants rudoient leur cousine. Placée dans un orphelinat, elle y reste jusqu'à l'âge de dix-huit ans. Elle devient alors institutrice dans une famille et tombe passionnément amoureuse du père de ses élèves. Un amour partagé, auquel elle résistera d'abord, découvrant avec horreur l'existence de la première femme de Rochester, enfermée pour folie par son mari.

1853. Charlotte Brontë ha trentasette anni e sta affrontando il periodo più difficile della sua vita. È rimasta sola con il padre nella silenziosa canonica di Haworth, villaggio industriale dello Yorkshire, a ridosso della ventosa brughiera. Ha sepolto le ultime due sorelle, Emily e Anne, è continuamente afflitta da malanni e guarda al futuro con incertezza. Il suo destino sembra legato a un'unica decisione, ma prenderla o meno implica ferire se stessa o suo padre. La sua paura più grande, quella di morire da sola, la opprime senza tregua, così Charlotte sacrifica il suo amore filiale e decide di sposare il reverendo Arthur Bell Nicholls, già respinto una volta. In quel momento nei cassetti della sua stanza giace un manoscritto incompiuto, scritto a matita: La storia di Willie Ellin. Questa rappresenta la prima traduzione in italiano dell'opera, la cui importanza deriva proprio dalla sua forma embrionale. Essa lascia scorgere e apprezzare il prezioso momento della prima stesura del pensiero della scrittrice salita agli onori letterari grazie Jane Eyre e Villette: errori, ripensamenti, abbreviazioni, fugaci paesaggi e personaggi che ci sembra di aver già conosciuto, da sempre vivi e vividi nell'immaginario dell'autrice fin dall'infanzia.

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