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With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontes most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette. The first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent lifes journey - a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a womans consciousness in English literature.

Jane Eyre, une jeune orpheline élevée par sa tante abusive et ses cousins cruels. Jane est envoyée dans une école pour jeunes filles pauvres, où elle se distingue par son intelligence et sa détermina

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world redeeming creed of Christ. There isI repeat ita difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.The world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been accustomed to blend them; finding it convenient to make external show pass for sterling worthto let white washed walls vouch for clean shrines. It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and exposeto rase the gilding, and show base metal under itto penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is indebted to him.

Its focus is less on individual men and women, although their stories add compulsive drama and tension, than on the individual perceived in close relation with the forces moulding society. Charlotte Bronte chose to set it during the Napoleonic Wars - a period of bad harvests, Luddite riots, economic unrest and the oppression of women - in order to grapple with social and political issues. In her story of two contrasting heroines and the men they love can be traced her wish to reconcile the world of romantic love and fulfilment with the gritty realities of suffering, obligation and social duty.

Charlotte Bronte's letters are our most direct source of information about the Brontes and the life of the novelist. Vivid and passionate, they describe her inmost feelings as well as the world around her in Haworth, Belgium, and London. They offer insights into her novels and the development of her literary style.

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"La vida de Jane Eyre da un vuelco tras la muerte de su padre. Acogida en casa de su tia y sus primos, sufrirá maltrato físico y psicológico hasta ser enviada al siniestro internado Lowood, donde vivira una experiencia de miseria y privaciones. Ya adulta entra a trabajar como institutriz en Thorfield Hall, campo de espinos en ingles. Alli conocera el amor del señor Rochester, tutor de la niña a la que ella enseña. Pero el señor Rochester tiene un pasado oscuro un pasado que tiene que ver con el lugar donde viven. Cuando Jane descubra el secreto que se esconde en el atico de la mansion, su vida no volvera a ser la misma.En Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte demostro una capacidad insolita para describir los sentimientos de los personajes. Con esta obra maestra sento las bases de la novela romantica, dando origen a toda una tradicion de mujeres fuertes capaces de enfrentarse a un destino adverso, tomando las riendas de su propia vida."

Dueña de un singular temperamento desde su complicada infancia de huérfana, primero a cargo de una tía poco cariñosa y después en la escuela Lowood, Jane Eyre logra el puesto de institutriz en Thornfield Hall para educar a la hija de su atrabiliario y peculiar dueño, el señor Rochester. Poco a poco, el amor ira tejiendo su red entre ellos, pero la casa y la vida de Rochester guardan un estremecedor y terrible misterio.

Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the Byronic master of Thornfield Hall. Jane spent her childhood living with her uncle and aunt at Gateshead Hall, where she was emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins. After finishing school at Lowood Institution for poor and orphaned girls, where she gain friends and role models she starts working as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her employer, Edward, but their love has a lot of obstacles to beat.

Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Canterbury Christ Church University College.Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she 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. All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic and attractive Mr Rochester.However, there is great kindness and warmth in this epic love story, which is set against the magnificent backdrop of the Yorkshire moors. Ultimately the grand passion of Jane and Rochester is called upon to survive cruel revelation, loss and reunion, only to be confronted with tragedy.

De Jane Eyre (1847), ciertamente una de las novelas más famosas de estos dos últimos siglos, solemos conservar la imagen ultrarromántica de una azarosa historia de amor entre una institutriz pobre y su rico e imponente patron, todo en el marco truculento y misterioso de una fantasmagoria gotica. Y olvidamos que, antes y despues de la relacion central con el abismal, sardonico y volcanico señor Rochester, Jane Eyre tiene otras relaciones, otras historias: episodios escalofriantes de una infancia tan maltratada como rebelde, años de enfermedad y arduo aprendizaje en un tetrico internado, estaciones de penuria y renuncia en la mas absoluta desolacion fisica y moral, inesperados golpes de fortuna, e incluso remansos de paz familiar y nuevas aunque engañosas- proposiciones de matrimonio. Olvidamos, en fin, que la novela es todo un libro de la vida, una confesion certera y severisima rotundamente critica- de un completo itinerario espiritual, y una exhaustiva ilustracion de la lucha entre conciencia y sentimiento, entre principios y deseos, entre legitimidad y caracter, de una heroina que es la "llama cautiva" entre los extremos que forman su naturaleza.Carmen Martin Gaite ha rescatado el vigor, la riqueza y la naturalidad expresiva de un texto un tanto desvirtuado por la popularidad de sus multiples versiones. Gracias a su traduccion, hecha ex profeso para esta edicion, quien creyera conocer esta novela, al leerla de nuevo, mas que recordarla, la descubrira.Charlotte Bronte nacio en 1816 en Thornton (Yorkshire), tercera hija de Patrick Bronte y Maria Branwell. En 1820 el padre fue nombrado vicario perpetuo de la pequeña aldea de Haworth, en los paramos de Yorkshire, y alli pasaria Charlotte casi toda su vida. Huerfanos de madre a muy corta edad, los cinco hermanos Bronte fueron educados por una tia. En 1824, Charlotte, junto con sus hermanas Emily, Elizabeth y Maria, acudio a una escuela para hijas de clerigos. Elizabeth y Maria murieron ese mismo año, y Charlotte siempre lo atribuyo a las malas condiciones del internado. Es-tudiaria posteriormente un año en una escuela privada, donde ejercio como maestra; fue luego institutriz, y maestra de nuevo en un pensionado de Bruselas, donde en 1842 estuvo interna con Emily. De vuelta a Haworth, en 1846 consiguio publicar un volumen de Poesias con sus hermanas Emily y Anne, con el pseudonimo, respectivamente, de Currer, Ellis y Acton Bell. Su primera novela, El profesor, no encontro editor, y no seria publicada hasta 1857. Pero, como Currer Bell, publico con exito Jane Eyre (1847). En 1848, mientras morian a su alrededor Emily y Anne y su hermano Branwell, escribio Shirley (Alba clasica, nº XXX), que se publicaria al año siguiente. Su ultima novela fue Villette (1853). Charlotte se caso con el reverendo A. B. Nicholls un año antes de morir en 1855.

With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Bronte''s most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquetter. This first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life''s journeya journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman''s consciousness in English literature.

Jane Eyre. Eine Autobiographie (Originaltitel: Jane Eyre. An Autobiography), erstmals erschienen im Jahr 1847 unter dem Pseudonym Currer Bell, ist der erste veroffentlichte Roman der britischen Autorin Charlotte Bronte und ein Klassiker der viktorianischen Romanliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts.Der Roman erzahlt die Lebensgeschichte von Jane Eyre, die nach einer schweren Kindheit eine Stelle als Gouvernante annimmt und sich in ihren Arbeitgeber verliebt, jedoch immer wieder um ihre Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung kampfen muss. Der Stoff des Romanes wurde haufig fur Theater, Film und Fernsehen bearbeitet. (aus wikipedia.de)

Shirley is Charlotte Bront:e e''s only historical novel and her most topical one. Written at a time of social unrest, it is set during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, when economic hardship led to riots in the woollen district of Yorkshire. A mill-owner, Robert Moore, is determined to introduce new machinery despite fierce opposition from his workers; he ignores their suffering, and puts his own life at risk .Robert sees marriage to the wealthy Shirley Keeldar as the solution to his difficulties, but he loves his cousin Caroline. She suffers misery and frustration, and Shirley has her own ideas about the man she will choose to marry. The friendship between the two women, and the contrast between their situations, is at the heart of this compelling novel, which is suffused with Bront'':''s deep yearning for an earlier time.

Jane Eyre é uma menina órfã que tem por guardiã uma perversa tia, a sra. Reed, que a maltrata incessantemente. Estando na base da pirâmide social da rígida sociedade inglesa vitoriana, tudo indica qu