Charlotte Brontë

The Professor (1857) is English writer Charlotte Brontë's first novel. Rejected by several publishing houses, Brontë shelved the novel in order to write her masterpiece Jane Eyre (1847). After her death, The Professor was edited by Brontë's widower, Arthur Bell Nichols, who saw that the novel was published posthumously. Based on Brontë's experience as a student and teacher in Brussels-which similarly inspired her novel Villette-The Professor is...

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of contemporary...

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...

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...

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...

The Complete Works of Charlotte Bronte brings together all of Charlotte Bronte's beloved classic stories and indelible characters. This special ebook edition includes all of Bronte's published novels: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor. A masterful storyteller, Charlotte Bronte is recognized as one of the most significant female authors of the nineteenth century, and her work continues to resonate with modern audiences.

When Charlotte's brother Branwell was given a set of 12 toy soldiers, an entire new imaginary world opened before them. The Twelves, or Young Men, became a constant source of inspiration for the Brontë children, spawning tales of swashbuckling adventure, darkest intrigue, doomed romance, and malevolent spirits. The four volumes of tales collected here make delightful reading, while offering a unique insight into Brontë family life and Charlotte's...

Poetry reflecting the early Victorian trends in literature. "Love is like the wild rose-briar, Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?" A volume of poetry written by the Bronte sisters described by Emily, the middle sister, as "crude thoughts of the unripe mind."

Among the most talented siblings in English literary history, the Brontë sisters are best remembered for their novels: Emily's Wuthering Heights, Charlotte's Jane Eyre, and Anne's Tenant of Wildfell Hall, among other works. It is less well known that the sisters also composed a considerable amount of fine poetry. This volume contains forty-seven poems by all three sisters. Selections include Charlotte's "Presentiment," "Passion," two poems on the...

Raised by vampyre relatives, Jane grows to resent the lifestyle's effect on her upbringing. No sunlight, nighttime hours, and a diet of bloody red meat is no way for a mortal girl to live. Things change for Jane when the ghost of her uncle visits her, imparts her parents' slayer history, and charges her with the responsibility of striking out to find others of her kind and learn the slayer ways. After trying her luck at a school full of zombies,...