BRONTE CHARLOTTE

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Η εξάχρονη Τζέιν χάνει και τους δύο γονείς της και με εντολή της θείας της μπαίνει σε ένα οικοτροφείο. Χάρη στην αξιοθαύμαστη δύναμή της θα καταφέρει να ξεπεράσει τις κακουχίες και να επιβιώσει σε ένα πολύ σκληρό περιβάλλον. Αποφοιτώντας, εννιά χρόνια μετά, προσλαμβάνεται ως γκουβερνάντα και δασκάλα της Αντέλ, θετής κόρης του Έντουαρντ Ρότσεστερ. Στον πύργο όμως όπου ζουν κάτι παράξενο συμβαίνει. Ποιο σκοτεινό μυστικό προσπαθεί να κρατήσει πάση θυσία ο Έντουαρντ; Η ορφανή ηρωίδα του επικού αυτού βιβλίου έχει χαρίσει συγκίνηση σε αμέτρητους...
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Μόλο που πέρασαν κάπου εκατόν πενήντα χρόνια από τότε που γράφτηκε αυτό το μυθιστόρημα, δεν έπαψε να συγκινεί όσους το διαβάζουν. Η Τζέιν Έιρ είναι μια μικρή ορφανή. Ο αδελφός της μητέρας της την παίρνει στο σπίτι του και πεθαίνοντας, την εμπιστεύεται στη γυναίκα του, για να την αναθρέψει με τα δικά της παιδιά. Αλλά εκείνη είναι μια γυναίκα σκληρή και η μικρούλα Τζέιν Έιρ πληγώνεται κάθε μέρα από τη συμπεριφορά της. Τελικά, η θεία της την κλείνει στα δέκα της χρόνια σ' ένα ίδρυμα για ορφανά παιδιά, όπου σπουδάζει και ζει με μύριες στερήσει...
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(P/B) Jane Eyre
'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.' Bronte's infamous Gothic novel tells the story of orphan Jane, a child of unfortunate circumstances. Raised and treated badly by her aunt and cousins and eventually sent away to a cruel boarding school, it is not until Jane becomes a governess at Thornfield that she finds happiness. Meek, measured, but determined, Jane soon falls in love with her brooding and stormy master, Mr Rochester, but it is not long before strange and unnerving events occur in ...
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(P/B) JANE EYRE
A deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield Hall promises a kind of freedom. But Thornfield is a house full of secrets, its master a passionate, tormented man, and before long Jane faces her greatest struggle in a choice between love and self-respect. VINTAGE CL...
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(P/B) VILLETTE
"Villette" is Charlotte Bronte's powerful autobiographical novel of one woman's search for true love, edited with an introduction by Helen M. Cooper in "Penguin Classics". With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There, she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, the hostility of headmistress Madame Beck, and her own complex feelings - first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial profes...
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(H/B) JANE EYRE
Passionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotional power. Its story of a defiant, fiercely intelligent woman who refuses to accept her appointed place in society - and instead finds love on her own terms - has become famous as one of the greatest romances ever written, but it is also a brooding Gothic mystery, a profound depiction of character and a transformative work of the imagination. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) Jane Eyre
As a young orphan, Jane Eyre is thrown upon the mercy of an aunt and cousins who are anything but merciful, and when they send her away to an austere boarding school for charity cases, it seems she will never be allowed to forget her humble beginnings. However, Jane has a quiet inner strength and resourcefulness, and when she take on a role as governess at Thornfield Hall, she quickly gains both the affection and respect not only of her young pupil, but also the child's guardian, the fierce and brooding Mr Rochester. Perhaps Jane has final...
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(P/B) THE PROFESSOR
The Professor, written in 1845-6 before Jane Eyre, challenged contemporary expectations of the novel by its brevity, realism, and insistence on a working career both before and after marriage for its hero and heroine. William Crimsworth escapes from an uncongenial clerkship in a Yorkshire mill to find work as a teacher in Belgium. He becomes entangled with a sensuously attractive 'older woman', whose later, suavely cruel manoeuvres are designed to separate him from the penniless girl who is both a teacher and a pupil in her school. Strikin...
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(P/B) JANE EYRE
A novel of high romance and great intensity, Jane Eyre has enjoyed popular success and critical acclaim ever since its first publication in 1847. Jane's journey from a troubled childhood to independence - and her turbulent love affair with the enigmatic Mr Rochester - electrified Victorian readers with its narrative power. With characters that are as unforgettable as the story they enact, and a striking use of language that amazed the readers of the day, Jane Eyre ranks among the most influential English novels ever written. (From the publ...
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JANE EYRE (+CD)
Who is the dark stranger Jane meets one winter's evening and how will he change her life? And who is the mysterious woman who threatens to destroy Jane's hapiness just as her dreams are about to come true? (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) JANE EYRE
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 e...
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Ο ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΗΣ
Ο νεαρός Γουίλλιαμ Κρίμγουωρθ, θέλοντας να χαράξει ο ίδιος το δρόμο της ζωής του, αρνιέται τις προσφορές των δύο Λόρδων θείων του και καταφεύγει στο μεγαλύτερο αδελφό του Έντουαρντ, ο οποίος είναι ένας επιτυχημένος έμπορος. Όμως οι προσπάθειές του να σταδιοδρομήσει και ο ίδιος στο εμπόριο αποτυχαίνουν και, καθώς είναι απόφοιτος του φημισμένου κολλεγίου του Ήτον, βρίσκει δουλειά σαν καθηγητής Αγγλικών σ’ ένα σχολείο του Βελγίου. Εκεί ερωτεύεται την κόρη της διευθύντριας του γειτονικού παρθεναγωγείου, η οποία δείχνει στη αρχή να ανταποκρίνετ...
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(P/B) THE PROFESSOR
The Professor is Charlotte Bronte's first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Grimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the certainties of England to forge a life in Brussels. But as a man, William has freedom of action, and as a writer Bronte is correspondingly liberated, exploring the relationship between power and sexual desire. William's first person narration reveals his attraction to the dominating directress of the girls' school where he tea...
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Ούτε σκέψη για περίπατο εκείνη την ημέρα. Ο κρύος χειμωνιάτικος αέρας είχε φέρει μαζί του βαριά σύννεφα και μια διαπεραστική βροχή. Αυτό δεν μου ήταν καθόλου δυσάρεστο. Μου προκαλούσε φρίκη να γυρίζω σπίτι με το πέσιμο της νύχτας, με ξυλιασμένα τα χέρια και τα πόδια και με την καρδιά βαριά από το κατσάδιασμα της Μπέσσυ, της κουβερνάντας των παιδιών, που με ταπείνωνε αφάνταστα και μ' έκανε να νιώθω ακόμα πιο πολύ τη φυσική μου κατωτερότητα από την Ελίζα την Τζορτζάνα και τον Τζων Ρηντ. Και τα τρία παιδιά είχαν μαζευτεί στο σαλόνι, γύρω από ...
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JANE EYRE (+MP3 AUDIO CD)
Jane Eyre, a poor orphan, grows up in misery until she becomes the governess in the house of wealthy Mr Rochester and falls in love. But mysterious events take place in the house at night, and Mr Rochester appears to be hiding a terrible secret. Can Jane even hope for happiness? (from the publisher)...
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(P/B) SHIRLEY
With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's expectations. The novel is set in a period of social and political ferment, featuring class disenfranchisement, the drama of Luddite machine-breaking, and the divisive effects of the Napoleonic Wars. But Charlotte Bronte's pa...
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(P/B) SHIRLEY
"You expected bread, and you have got a stone; break your teeth on it, and don't shriek... you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob." Shirley is Charlotte Bronte'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...
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(P/B) STANCLIFFE'S HOTEL
These witty vignettes, set in Charlotte Bronte's imaginary world of Angria, feature debauched aristocrats, high-society courtesans and the rakish, brooding hero Zamorna, and offer a fascinating insight into Bront?'s early writing. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) JANE EYRE
Jane Eyre rightly remains high on the list of the most popular English novels, and brought fame to its author, Charlotte Bronte, on its publication in 1847. The story's heroine, Jane, is a plain and plain-speaking orphan whose determination, good nature and spirit see her through a series of personal ordeals from an early age. When she takes up a position as governess at Thornfield Hall, to teach eight-year-old Adele, she is resigned to an uneventful career. But then the moody, charismatic owner of Thornfield, Edward Rochester, makes a rar...
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