Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte
Bronte

The novel revolutionized prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative, where actions and events are colored by a psychological intensity. Charlotte Brontë has been called the "first historian of the private consciousness," and the literary ancestor of writers like Proust and Joyce.—Wikipedia



—Submitted by Amber M., Senior Information Assistant


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