Charlotte Brontë

A mill-owner, Robert Moore, is determined to introduce new machinery despite fierce opposition from his workers. He sees marriage to the wealthy Shirley Keeldar as the solution to his difficulties, but he loves his cousin Caroline who suffers misery and frustration.

William Crimsworth escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter, complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both teacher and pupil in Reuter's school. Also included in this edition is Emma, Charlotte Bronte's last, unfinished novel. Both works are drawn from the original Clarendon texts.

Primeiro romance de Charlotte Brontë, uma das irmãs que compõem a famosa família literária inglesa, Jane Eyre conta a história de uma jovem em busca de uma vida mais significativa na sociedade inglesa do século XIX. Por meio da abordagem de temas como a subordinação da mulher, relações familiares abusivas que geram traumas futuros e o crescimento moral e espiritual da personagem principal, Jane Eyre foi publicado originalmente em 1847,...

A blistering criticism of the literary world in which she lived, Charlotte Brontë's "The Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells" contains two fascinating and insightful essays by the author of "Jane Eyre" addressing her late sisters' Emily and Anne's writing careers (Emily wrote "Wuthering Heights," Anne created "Agnes Grey" and"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"). With surprising frankness and honesty, Charlotte offers a glimpse of the challenges...

Orphaned, rebellious, and fiercely intelligent, Jane Eyre arrives at Thornfield Manor to serve as governess. As she grows closer to her enigmatic employer Mr. Rochester, dark secrets begin to stir within the mansion's walls. Strange laughter haunts the corridors at night. Mysterious fires threaten the inhabitants' safety. In the midst of growing danger, Jane must choose between her passionate love and her unwavering principles. Charlotte Brontë's...

Jane Eyre follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall. The novel revolutionised prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative, where actions and events are coloured by a psychological intensity. Charlotte Brontë has been called the "first historian...

JANE EYRE is the classic story of the young girl who falls in love with her dark, dashing and handsome employer, but does he harbour a deep dark secret, a wife she doesn't know about? Are they really meant for each other in the end? WUTHERING HEIGHTS is the passionate and turbulent love-story of two people who cannot be together, a love which is all-encompassing yet thwarted, an unresolved passion which eventually threatens to destroy them and many...

A reworking of "The Professor", the author's first novel, "Villette" is Charlotte Bronte's fourth and last novel which is loosely based upon her own experiences at a boarding school in Brussels. The work follows the life of Lucy Snowe, a quiet yet self-reliant young girl without any family, from her life in the English countryside where she lives with her Godmother, to London, and finally to the French town of Villette, where she gains employment...

Sie ist allein, mittellos und nur mit unerschütterlicher Willenskraft ausgestattet. Doch Jane Eyre, die mutige Heldin aus Charlotte Brontës unvergleichlichem Roman, lässt sich nicht brechen. Von den Kälte und Härte ihrer Kindheit in Lowood geprägt, wagt sie den Schritt in ein neues Leben – ein Leben, das von Sehnsucht, Entbehrung und dennoch von einer tiefen Hoffnung durchdrungen ist. Auf Thornfield Hall findet die Waise von Lowood schließlich...

A rollicking adventure from the Brontë s' imagined kingdom of Verdopolis, The Secret is a novel of intrigue, duplicity, and all-conquering love.