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Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees her independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Lucy flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the cosmopolitan capital of Villette.

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.

When an eager and curious Jane Eyre arrives at Thornfield Hall her sexual desires are instantly awakened. Who is the enigmatic Rochester whom she instantly feels attracted to? What are the strange and yet captivating noises coming from the attic? Only one thing is certain: Jane Eyre may have arrived at Thornfield an unfulfilled and tentative woman, but she will leave a very different person.…

Il racconto capolavoro della scrittrice inglese Charlotte Brontë, scritto in forma autobiografica con la protagonista, Jane Eyre, che si rivolge in modo diretto al "lettore". In dissonanza con i cliché dell’epoca, il romanzo è ancora attualissimo grazie alle sue descrizioni, sempre vivaci e realistiche ma mai pedanti, l'attenzione rivolta alla psicologia dei personaggi e ai loro sentimenti. Su tutti, Jane Eyre spicca per la sua integrità, indipendenza, forza interiore e passionalità tali da renderla una persona autentica più che una creazione letteraria. Intramontabile.

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.

Without family or means, the strong-willed Lucy Snowe escapes the English countryside for the town of Villette. Though overwhelmed by a new culture and a foreign language, Lucy finds employment at an all-girls boarding school. Her self-reliance is soon compromised by her affections for two men: the kindhearted Dr. Bretton and the imperious professor M. Paul Emanuel. As Lucy longs for both independence and passion in a patriarchal society, fate plays its hand.

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.

The novel Shirley by Charlotte Brontë (1849) followed the huge popular success of her debut, Jane Eyre. The setting is an environment which is industrializing at a rapid pace during the Napoleonic Wars. This is the story of two heroines occupying vastly different social positions in life. Caroline Helstone, trapped in a Yorkshire rectory, serves as a symbol of all the single women of the time. On the other hand, there’s Shirley Keeldar, an independent woman whose wealth has liberated her.

The Professor is Charlotte Brontës first novel. Our protagonist is William Crimsworth and, like Jane Eyre, he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the familiar surroundings of England to forge a life in Brussels. Brontë explores the relationship between power and sexual desire through William's first person narration.

The Search After Happiness is a 1829 novel by Charlotte Brontë. Written when the author was just thirteen years old, it is a disturbing tale of mysterious men and enslaving creatures that poses many questions but answers few. An uncanny insight into the mind of a young literary genius, "The Search After Happiness" is not to be missed by those who have read and enjoyed other works by this author. Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, and the oldest sister in the world-famous trio of literary sisters.

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.

Wuthering Heights: Lockwood is an unwanted guest, forced by a snowstorm to pass the night at the lonely and inhospitable house of Wuthering Heights. A child’s ghost pleads at the window to be let in; a waif who has wandered the moor for 20 years. Jane Eyre: Orphaned Jane emerges from a cold, hostile upbringing at Lowood Institution to take her place as governess at Thornfield, home of Mr Rochester. Her petulant but loving charge, Adele, and the housekeeper, Mrs Fairfax, are her sole company, while Rochester remains a distant, mysterious and yet imposing presence.

In this volume of fifty poems our classic poets delve with storied verse into every facet of this institution. From the good, the bad and even the ugly, from the Wedding day to the realisation that divorce and separation maybe the better path. Between these two frontiers other avenues and facets are explored by the pens of many including Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, Emily Dickinson and the Rossetti’s.

Jane Eyre is a compelling blend of gothic romance and self-discovery. Follow Jane’s journey through hardship, love, and moral dilemmas in Charlotte Brontë’s timeless novel. This book explores themes of independence, gender, and class struggles, making it a must-read for lovers of classic literature and strong heroines.

Jane Eyre fue publicada hace dos siglos y hoy podemos disfrutarla en la voz de Regina Blandón.

Due tormentate storie d'amore dall'indimenticabile autrice di Jane Eyre, sullo sfondo dell'Inghilterra ottocentesca. Questa raccolta contiene Shirley e Il professore, due capolavori di Charlotte Brontë, che coniugano relazioni appassionanti e poco convenzionali al vivido affresco della società del tempo. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) nasce a Thornton, figlia di un pastore protestante e di un'insegnante. È la terzogenita di sei figli: le due sorelle minori Emily ed Anne saranno a loro volta scrittrici (autrici, rispettivamente, di Cime tempestose e Agnes Grey).

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.