Jane Eyre

<b>Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br><br>Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane Eyre</i>erupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the world’s most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work “of great genius.” Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Brontë’s masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern, <i>Jane Eyre </i>endures as one of the world’s most beloved novels.