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Shirley è un “romanzo sociale” del 1849 pubblicato dopo il primo fortunato romanzo della stessa autrice, Jane Eyre (che peraltro era stato pubblicato, come questo, sotto lo pseudonimo di Currer Bell). Il romanzo è ambientato nello Yorkshire negli anni 1811-1812 e tratta della depressine industriale dovuta alla guerra Napoleonica, con la conseguente reazione operaia sfociante nel luddismo.

One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr. Rochester. What lurks in the attic at Thornfield, the ancestral home of the surly Mr. Rochester? Will the governess Jane Eyre discover his secret - and having discovered it, live to regret that knowledge?

One of a series of retellings of classic world literature from publisher Real Reads. True to the original plot, characters and theme, Real Reads also reflect the original author's style. A brilliant introduction to Bronte's compelling story.Jane Eyre is poor, parentless and plain. her future looks bleak.Jane's aunt and cousin detest her. Life at Lowood School is cruel and dangerous. What inner strength can young Jane find?

This novel depicts a mill owner, Robert, whose business is struggling and in turn rejects his attraction to an orphaned woman, Carolne, in favour of proposing to a rich landowner, Shirley. In Charlotte Bronte's classic Shirley rejects him as she loves Robert's poor brother, Louis, but has too much pride to admit her feelings.

Based on Charlotte Bronte's work as a governess in Brussels, Villette concerns the life of Lucy Snowe, an English girl who obtains a post at a girl's school in Belgium. With few friends and little money, Lucy concentrates on her work. However, she starts to find solace in an unlikely suitor. Could there be more to life than loneliness?

Perhaps England's greatest literary family. To find one brilliant novelist in a family is extremely rare. But two? Three?

The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily Jane and Anne, together with their brother Patrick, are famed throughout the world. And amongst their many talents was poetry. Of course, being Brontë's, they were rather good at that too.

Catherine McCormack, Joseph Fiennes, and Harriet Walter star in this BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's last and most remarkable novel. Passion and perception run through this fascinating study of loneliness, love, and ultimate triumph over adversity.

1847 traf ein Manuskript beim Verlag Smith, Elder & Co. in London ein. Wenig später wurde es unter dem Titel "Jane Eyre - Eine Autobiografie" veröffentlicht und sorgte dafür, dass ein regelrechtes Lesefieber auf der Insel ausbrach. Bis heute zieht Charlotte Brontës Geschichte über die willensstarke Jane Eyre, die in Liebe zu dem rauen Edward Rochester entbrennt und sich doch von ihm lossagt, überall auf der Welt Leser und Hörer in ihren Bann. Die Schauspielerin Sophie Rois interpretiert dieses literarische Meisterwerk in einer mitreißenden Lesung, für die sie 2006 mit dem Deutschen Hörbuchpreis ausgezeichnet wurde.

For the female poet there was always the confining hand of men to instruct that their time was perhaps spent more productively elsewhere. These lines, these gilded verses often protest otherwise. The contribution of women in these earlier centuries is immense, and in this series we bring together poets who have created some of the most beautiful and expressive verses ever written. And remember these words, these telling lines, have been written against the grain of society's male bias. With their remembered words these female poets have given us a history that we can all now share.

In the small village of Haworth in Yorkshire, the Bronte family created novels and poems that are still admired to this day around the world. The eldest of the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, was born on 21st April 1816. The author of Jane Eyre, Shirley and Vilette, she was also a very talented poet, as witnessed here in this collection.  

The hero of Charlotte Brontë's first novel 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.

At the heart of each of these great classic stories is an adoptee with an indomitable spirit who becomes the heroine (or hero) of her own life. "The bravery it takes for an unwanted orphan to forge their own path in life was as great when these stories were written as it is today," says narrator Alison Larkin, who draws on her own adoption experience to bring these stories to authentic new life. 

Charlotte Brontë's great masterpiece of English prose has lost nothing over the passing of the time since it was written. The story of a young girl who battles against all the odds to find love and become successful, in spite of all the challenges of class, poverty, and society facing her.... Written during the Victorian era, its lessons are still relevant for women and girls today! This version has all the French and German passages narrated in English for the easier understanding of the modern listener.

Questi racconti fantastici rappresentano i primi esperimenti letterari di un'ancora giovanissima Charlotte Brontë. Con personaggi e ambientazioni memorabili, tra fantasia e una più che vivida rappresentazione delle dure condizioni di vita dei bambini della propria epoca, la grande autrice di "Jane Eyre" assembla una serie di racconti insieme vivaci e commoventi. Umani, insomma, a trecentosessanta gradi. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) nasce a Thornton, figlia di un pastore protestante e di un'insegnante.

Orphelin depuis l'enfance, William Crimsworth sait qu'il ne peut compter que sur lui même, Victime du caractère irascible de son frère ainé, Edward, refusant l'aide que ses oncles ne lui accordent qu'avec mépris, il s'exile en Belgique. Professeur à Bruxelles dans une école de garçons, William dont les qualités sont vite remarquées, se voit proposer d'enseigner l'anglais dans un pensionnat pour demoiselles dirigé par Mme Reuter.

Jane Eyre is an 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte, published under her pen name "Currer Bell". Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman which 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 revolutionized 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 colored by a psychological intensity.

 Jane Eyre es una novela escrita por Charlotte Brontë, publicada en 1847 por Smith, Elder & Company, que en el momento de su aparición consiguió gran popularidad, encumbrando a la autora como una de las mejores novelistas románticas, y es hoy considerada un clásico de la literatura en lengua inglesa. 

William, uomo sensibile e letterato, decide di scappare da un lavoro pesante e competitivo nella zona industriale dello Yorkshire. Si trasferisce così in Belgio per insegnare in un istituto femminile, dove fa la conoscenza di Frances Henri, studentessa bisognosa e particolarmente intelligente, della quale un po' per volta si innamora, e dalla quale sarà corrisposto.

Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn't quite fit. Once finished with her schooling, and with no family that really cares of her she strikes out on her own as a governess. Jane Eyre searches for love, someone to care for her, and someone to care for, and finds it in unexpected places.View our entire collection of podcasts at www.solgood.orgAll Librivox recordings are in the public domain

The year reaches its end with the Twelfth month. The landscape may be bleak, a sculpture of lines, monochrome dominates. The air carries the sounds of winter: wind, storms, silence. Our classic poets flex their lexicons with verse that describes all manner of events, sights and sounds. Among their ranks are Hardy, Shakespeare, Rossetti, Nesbit, Burns and a wealth of others, who, with their thoughts and desires express the world in lines of inky marvel.