Jane Eyre
An orphaned governess, a brooding employer and a secret in the attic — told in one of fiction’s most fearless voices.
- Author
- Charlotte Brontë
- First published
- 1847
- Length
- About 187,000 words (roughly 670 print pages)
- Formats
- EPUB (DRM-free) · Online reader
- Language
- English (British spelling)
- Edition source
- Standard Ebooks (public-domain dedication, CC0)
About this book
Jane Eyre survives a loveless childhood and a harsh charity school with her spirit intact. Taking a post as governess at Thornfield Hall, she meets its restless, sardonic master, Mr Rochester — and begins to sense that the house is hiding something.
Passionate, principled and fiercely independent, Jane narrates her own story with a directness that shocked Victorian readers and still feels modern.
About this edition. This book is in the public domain, so the text may be available free elsewhere. Your purchase covers our formatted EPUB edition, full access in the online reader and lifetime re-downloads from your library. Read the free sample before you buy.
- The complete text — about 187,000 words (roughly 670 print pages)
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Credits & licence
Ebook edition: Standard Ebooks, released into the public domain (CC0 1.0). Produced for Standard Ebooks by Emma Sweeney, based on a transcription from Project Gutenberg and digital scans from various sources. Cover: Standard Ebooks design adapted from “Portrait of a Young Girl”, a painting completed between 1903 and 1904 by Vilhelm Hammershøi (public domain). EPUB and web reader edition packaged by Paper Lane Books from the Standard Ebooks source files. Standard Ebooks is not affiliated with Paper Lane Books and does not endorse this shop.
