4.0(52)

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is a Victorian romatic novel by Charlotte Brontë. first published in 1847, under the pen name "Currer Bell." Writing for the Penguin edition, Stevie Davies describes it as an "influential feminist text" because of its in-depth exploration of the main female character's feelings.

Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.

In its internalization of the action - the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility and all the events are colored by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry- the novel revolutionized the art of fiction.

Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel's exploration of classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism.

According to a review of Jane Eyre in The Quarterly Review, it was found to be "pre-eminently an anti-Christian composition". Although Brontë clearly intended for the book to be a protest against Victorian lifestyle, which caused a great unrest with the Quarterly Review, they found Jane Eyre to be more radical than its original intent: "We do not hesitate to say that the tone of mind and thought which has overthrown authority and violated every code human and divine abroad, and fostered Chartism and rebellion at home, is the same which has also written Jane Eyre".

Although Jane Eyre is now commonly accepted into the canon of secondary school English literature, its immediate reception was in stark contrast to its modern-day reception. In 2003 the novel was ranked number 10 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

Total Running Time (TRT): 18 hours, 25 min. Reading by Elizabeth Klett.

Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell.


  1. Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Brontë

    audiobookbook
  2. Die beliebtesten Liebesromane der Regency-Zeit : 60+ Titel in einem Band: Stolz und Vorurteil, Überredung, Emma, Cecilia, Verbotene Ehe, Der breite Weg, Fantomina, Sturmhöhe, Paul und Virginie

    Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, Susan Ferrier, Jeffery Farnol, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Walter Scott, Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Victor Hugo, Dorothea Schlegel, Rafael Sabatini, Joseph von Eichendorff, Eliza Haywood, Maria Edgeworth, Johanna Schopenhauer, Marianne Ehrmann, Sophie Albrecht, Caroline von Wolzogen, Sophie Mereau, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Benedikte Naubert, Lew Tolstoi, Sophie von La Roche, Germaine de Staël, Christian August Vulpius, Stendhal, Frau von W., Levin Schücking, Hermann Stegemann, Selma Lagerlöf, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem

    book
  3. 100 Meisterwerke der englischen Literatur - Klassiker, die man kennen muss

    George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Katherine Mansfield, H.P. Lovecraft, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Burns, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Geoffrey Chaucer, Laurence Sterne, Henry Fielding, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Herman Melville, Thomas Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Sinclair Lewis, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Jerome K Jerome, Washington Irving, Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells, Daniel Defoe, Lew Wallace, James Fenimore Cooper, Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carrol, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Henry David Thoreau, G.K. Chesterton, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Margaret Mitchell, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, James Joyce, John Galsworthy, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling

    book
  4. 100 Klassiker der Romantik - Meisterwerke, die man kennen muss : Epische Liebesdramen und große Erwartungen in zeitlosen Geschichten

    Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, D. H. Lawrence, Fjodor Dostojewski, William Shakespeare, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Margaret Mitchell, Charles Dickens, L.M. Montgomery, Eugenie Marlitt, Wilhelmine Heimburg, Elisabeth Bürstenbinder, Stendhal, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Scott, Guy De Maupassant, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Leo Tolstoi, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Rudyard Kipling, Gustave Flaubert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prosper Mérimée, Edith Wharton, Lena Christ, François-René de Chateaubriand, Stefan Zweig, Alexander Sergejewitsch Puschkin, Ida Boy-Ed, Arthur Schnitzler, Anatole France, Johanna Spyri, George Eliot, Gaston Leroux, Nataly von Eschstruth, Gottfried von Straßburg, Sophie Mereau, Caroline von Wolzogen, Benedikte Naubert, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Levin Schücking

    book
  5. Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Brontë

    audiobookbook
  6. The Professor

    Charlotte Brontë

    book
  7. Villette

    Charlotte Brontë

    book
  8. Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Brontë

    book
  9. Shirley

    Charlotte Brontë

    book
  10. 50 Regency-Romantik-Romane : Verstand und Gefühl, Verbotene Ehe, Der Amateur Gentleman, Evelina, Stolz und Vorurteil, Gabriele, Nina's Briefe an ihren Geliebten...

    Jane Austen, Susan Ferrier, Frances Burney, Eliza Haywood, Jeffery Farnol, Walter Scott, Mary Wollstonecraft, Johanna Schopenhauer, Victor Hugo, Lew Tolstoi, Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Sophie Mereau, Emily Brontë, Marianne Ehrmann, Germaine de Staël, Caroline von Wolzogen, Benedikte Naubert, Sophie von La Roche, Dorothea Schlegel, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Rafael Sabatini, Christian August Vulpius, Hermann Stegemann

    book
  11. Jane Austen y Hermanas Brontë - Novelas Completas : Orgullo y Prejuicio, Sentido y Sensibilidad, Emma, Persuasión, Jane Eyre, Cumbres borrascosas, La inquilina de Wildfell Hall

    Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë

    book
  12. El Enano Verde

    Charlotte Brontë

    book

Verwandte Kategorien