Jane Eyre - Jessica Ferri

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."Orphaned, plain, and raised on the cold charity of an aunt who never wanted her, Charlotte Bront�'s fieriest heroine refuses, at every turn, to be grateful for less than she deserves. When she arrives at Thornfield Hall as governess after a grueling Lowood education , she meets Mr. Rochester - brooding, rich, magnificently rude and unpredictable - and finds herself, against all good sense, wanting more.�But Thornfield Hall has a secret. Bumps in the night. Curtains set ablaze. Injured guests. Bront�'s 1847 gothic masterpiece essentially invented the modern self in literature. It is a novel about a young woman who insists on her own worth even when granted everything she could seemingly wish for.�When published under the pen name Currer Bell, one reviewer noted: "No woman in all the annals of feminine celebrity ever wrote such a style, terse yet eloquent, and filled with energy bordering sometimes almost on rudeness: no woman ever conceived such masculine characters as those portrayed here."�Reader, a woman did.