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In this work the plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, but possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order which circumscribes her life and position.
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Midwest Book Review
This tie-in edition of a classic joins a major motion picture from Miramax Films, which should appeal to a wider audience than normal due to its inclusion of feature art from the film. In this new contemporary edition the classic story comes alive.
About Author
Charlotte Bronte was born at Thornton, Yorkshire, on April 21, 1816. Her father, Patrick Bronte, became curate for life of the moorland parish of Haworth, Yorkshire, in 1820, and her mother, Maria Bronte, died the following year, leaving behind five daughters and a son who were cared for in the parsonage by their aunt, Elizabeth Branwell. The eldest daughters, Maria and Elizabeth, died in 1825 from tuberculosis contracted at the religious boarding school to which they (along with Charlotte and her younger sister Emily) had been sent. (All the Bronte children ultimately suffered from lung disease.)
Raised at home thereafter, Charlotte, Emily, their youngest sister, Anne, and brother, Branwell, lived in a fantasy world of their own making, drawing on their voracious reading of Byron, Scott, Shakespeare, The Arabian Nights, and gothic fiction, and writing elaborate poetic and dramatic cycles involving the histories of imaginary countries. Charlotte's early writings revolved around the kingdom of Angria, about which she wrote melodramatic tales of passion and revenge. She spent a year studying at Miss Wooler's school in Roe Head (later relocated to Dewsbury Moor), and went back there to teach from 1835 to 1838; subsequently she worked as a governess.
With Emily, Charlotte traveled in 1842 to study languages at a boarding school in Brussels; her close emotional attachment to her instructor, M. Heger, a married man, would later figure in her fiction. Charlotte and Emily went home after a year because of their aunt's death; Charlotte subsequently returned to Brussels for a year of teaching, 1843 to 1844. A joint collection of poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne—published pseudonymously as Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell—appeared in 1846. The three sisters had in the meantime each written a novel, of which Emily's Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey were accepted in 1847 for publication the following year. Charlotte's first novel, The Professor, based on her experiences in Brussels, was rejected by a series of publishers (it finally appeared posthumously in 1857).
Jane Eyre was published under Charlotte's pseudonym, Currer Bell, in 1847 and achieved commercial and critical success; it had gone through four editions by the time of Charlotte's death. Jane Eyre won high praises; William Makepeace Thackeray (who later became a friend) declared himself 'exceedingly moved and pleased,' and George Henry Lewes applauded its 'deep significant reality'; it was also criticized by some for the rebelliousness of its heroine and for what the Quarterly Review called 'coarseness of language and laxity of tone.'
During this period the Brontes underwent repeated tragedies. Branwell, despite his early promise, had been ravaged by the effects of drink and drugs, and when he found work as a tutor in the same household where Anne was a governess, his involvement with his employer's wife led to his dismissal; he died in September of 1848, followed three months later by Emily and the following year by Anne. Charlotte, the sole survivor, published two more novels, Shirley (1849), a novel of Yorkshire during the Napoleonic period, and Villette (1853), a further fictional exploration of her Brussels experiences. In 1850 she met the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, with whom she formed a close friendship; Gaskell later wrote the classic biography of her friend, The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857). Charlotte married her father's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls, in 1854, and died on March 31, 1855.
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Good Show.Jane Eyre幼年失去双亲,就像绿山墙的安妮,遭受婶婶之虐待云云,但是女佣Bessie以及学校里的Miss Temple以及好友Helen(她的去世是个伤心之事)给了她爱的光亮。Jane看似鲁莽,却从不屈服,足够真诚,面对Rochester依旧没有半分谄媚,展现出现代女性的勇敢,自尊。今人大王贵元性骚扰之事更是展现Jane的可贵与永恒。“The moon was set,a...Good Show.Jane Eyre幼年失去双亲,就像绿山墙的安妮,遭受婶婶之虐待云云,但是女佣Bessie以及学校里的Miss Temple以及好友Helen(她的去世是个伤心之事)给了她爱的光亮。Jane看似鲁莽,却从不屈服,足够真诚,面对Rochester依旧没有半分谄媚,展现出现代女性的勇敢,自尊。今人大王贵元性骚扰之事更是展现Jane的可贵与永恒。“The moon was set,and it was dark.”Tomorrow,let's refresh ourselves.(展开)
2 有用 树叶的叶 2012-05-18 08:11:30
1936 《学生国文学类书》 琪恩·伊尔 英女作家布仑端作品。叙述两个脸貌丑恶而性情固执的男女,乃小说史上别开新路的作品。
0 有用 boring monkey 2014-06-04 10:37:37
难啃
20 有用 greeeen 2015-04-20 13:26:54
真正的人生赢家是面对挚爱也不盲从,且永远将道德判断和独立人格置于强烈的情感之上。
1 有用 佧捺卟卟 2017-12-17 04:50:43
爱的好隐忍好用力...
1 有用 Alita 2024-04-25 13:17:51 北京
Charlotte's writing has an ability to enter the reader's inner space and touch the heart. Anyway, which of her readers has not been her friend?
0 有用 罗瀚西 2024-07-23 00:11:08 江西
Good Show.Jane Eyre幼年失去双亲,就像绿山墙的安妮,遭受婶婶之虐待云云,但是女佣Bessie以及学校里的Miss Temple以及好友Helen(她的去世是个伤心之事)给了她爱的光亮。Jane看似鲁莽,却从不屈服,足够真诚,面对Rochester依旧没有半分谄媚,展现出现代女性的勇敢,自尊。今人大王贵元性骚扰之事更是展现Jane的可贵与永恒。“The moon was set,a... Good Show.Jane Eyre幼年失去双亲,就像绿山墙的安妮,遭受婶婶之虐待云云,但是女佣Bessie以及学校里的Miss Temple以及好友Helen(她的去世是个伤心之事)给了她爱的光亮。Jane看似鲁莽,却从不屈服,足够真诚,面对Rochester依旧没有半分谄媚,展现出现代女性的勇敢,自尊。今人大王贵元性骚扰之事更是展现Jane的可贵与永恒。“The moon was set,and it was dark.”Tomorrow,let's refresh ourselves. (展开)
0 有用 静恩 2024-05-22 17:53:20 广东
婚恋观念变了,已经没有以前那种触动了。
0 有用 Ιάννης Ξενάκης 2024-05-07 23:21:22 广东
看封面就笑了
0 有用 芒果鱼🇵🇸 2024-05-04 18:43:41 北京
小时候读不喜欢;大学英语泛读课上也不喜欢;读了茫茫藻海之后再听有声书更讨厌了
1 有用 Alita 2024-04-25 13:17:51 北京
Charlotte's writing has an ability to enter the reader's inner space and touch the heart. Anyway, which of her readers has not been her friend?