Jane Eyre
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few novels in the English literary canon have commanded such enduring fascination as Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë's passionate and psychologically rich masterpiece. The novel chronicles the life of its eponymous heroine — an orphaned, plain-spoken young woman of fierce intelligence and moral conviction — as she navigates the austere halls of Lowood School and the brooding, labyrinthine Thornfield Hall, where she falls into a fateful and turbulent love with the mercurial Edward Rochester, a man who harbours a devastating secret within his walls. Brontë's prose is at once intimate and incendiary, wielding first-person narration as a revolutionary act of female self-assertion in the Victorian era. Jane Eyre argues, with startling modernity, for the spiritual and intellectual equality of women at a time when such convictions were radical. Its themes of identity, social class, independence, and the tension between passion and morality have secured its place as one of the foundational texts of British literature. This edition, published by Heron Books of London and introduced by Janet Adam Smith, presents the novel in a form that invites both the devoted reader and the first-time discoverer to ask: what does it truly cost to claim one's own soul?
Author: Charlotte Brontë
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few novels in the English literary canon have commanded such enduring fascination as Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë's passionate and psychologically rich masterpiece. The novel chronicles the life of its eponymous heroine — an orphaned, plain-spoken young woman of fierce intelligence and moral conviction — as she navigates the austere halls of Lowood School and the brooding, labyrinthine Thornfield Hall, where she falls into a fateful and turbulent love with the mercurial Edward Rochester, a man who harbours a devastating secret within his walls. Brontë's prose is at once intimate and incendiary, wielding first-person narration as a revolutionary act of female self-assertion in the Victorian era. Jane Eyre argues, with startling modernity, for the spiritual and intellectual equality of women at a time when such convictions were radical. Its themes of identity, social class, independence, and the tension between passion and morality have secured its place as one of the foundational texts of British literature. This edition, published by Heron Books of London and introduced by Janet Adam Smith, presents the novel in a form that invites both the devoted reader and the first-time discoverer to ask: what does it truly cost to claim one's own soul?