Jane Eyre

Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s  The Great American Read Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Brontë’s  Jane Eyre erupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the world’s most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work “of great genius.” Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Brontë’s masterpiece introduced t