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Includes fifteen beautiful, full-page watercolor illustrations.

Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character, a small, plain-faced, intelligent and honest English orphan.

The novel goes through five distinct stages: Jane’s childhood at Gateshead, where she is abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations; her time as the governess of Thornfield Manor, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family at Marsh’s End (or Moor House) and Morton, where her cold clergyman-cousin St John Rivers proposes to her; and her reunion with and marriage to her beloved Rochester at his house of Ferndean.

Partly autobiographical, the novel abounds with social criticism and sinister gothic elements.

Jane Eyre uses many motifs from Gothic fiction, such as the Gothic manor (Thornfield), the Byronic hero (Rochester and Jane herself) and The Madwoman in the Attic (Bertha), whom Jane perceives as resembling “the foul German spectre—the vampire” (Chapter XXV) and who attacks her own brother in a distinctly vampiric way: “She sucked the blood: she said she’d drain my heart” (Chapter XX).

Also, besides gothicism, Jane Eyre displays romanticism to create a unique Victorian novel.

Literary allusions from the Bible, fairy tales, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Paradise Lost, and the novels and poetry of Sir Walter Scott are also much in evidence.

CHILDREN’S CLASSICS IN DRAMATIC FORM BY AUGUSTA STEVENSON This book is intended to accomplish three distinct purposes: first, to arouse a greater interest in oral reading; second, to develop an expressive voice—sadly lacking in the case of most Americans; and third, to give freedom and grace in the bodily attitudes and movements which are involved in reading and speaking. The stories given are for the most part adaptations of favorite tales from folklore,–Andersen, Grimm, Aesop, and the Arabian Nights having been freely drawn upon.

NOTE: This edition has a linked “Table of Contents” and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader or iPod e-book reader. Includes twenty-four beautiful, full-page watercolor illustrations.

Pride and Prejudice, first published on 28 January 1813, is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels and one of the first “romantic comedies” in the history of the novel. The book is Jane Austen’s second published novel.

The novel opens with the famous line, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” The arrival of such a single man “of considerable fortune” in the neighbourhood greatly excites Mrs. Bennet…

This Kindle book includes the complete text of 30 books in the original French: 20,000 Lieues sous les Mers, L’Archipel en Feu, Autour de la Lune, Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras, Un Billet de Loterie, Le Chateau des Carpathes, Cinq Cents Millions de la Begume, Cinq Semaine en Ballon, Le Docteur Ox, Les Enfants du Captaine Grant, Face au Drapeau, L’Ile Mysterieuse, Les Indes Noires, La Jangada, Keraban-le-Tetu, L’Ile a Helice, La Maison a Vapeur, Michel Strogoff, Mistress Branican, Nord Contre Sud, Le Pays des Fourrures, Le Pilote du Danube, Robur le Conquerant, Sans Dessus Dessous, Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours, Les Tribulations d’un Chinois en Chine, Le Village Aerien, Une Ville Flottante, Voyage au Centre de la Terre. According to Wikipedia: “Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth (written in 1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. Consequently he is often referred to as the “Father of science fiction”, along with H. G. Wells.[1] Verne is the second most translated author of all time, only behind Agatha Christie with 4162 translations…”

The first four volumes of Proust’s masterpiece in a single file, in the original French. Du côté de chez Swann, 1913; A L’Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs, 1919 ; Le Côté de Guermantes, 1920-1921; and Sodome et Gommorrhe, 1921-1922. According to Wikipedia: “Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic, best known as the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (in English, In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927… Begun in 1909, À la recherche du temps perdu consists of seven volumes spanning some 3,200 pages and teeming with more than 2,000 literary characters. Graham Greene called Proust the “greatest novelist of the 20th century”, and W. Somerset Maugham called the novel the “greatest fiction to date.” Proust died before he was able to complete his revision of the drafts and proofs of the final volumes, the last three of which were published posthumously and edited by his brother, Robert.”

Margaret Hunt’s translation. According to Wikipedia: “Children’s and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimms’ Fairy Tales… The Brothers Grimm (German: Die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were German academics who were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales[1] and for their work in linguistics, relating to how the sounds in words shift over time (Grimm’s Law). They are among the best known story tellers of novellas from Europe, allowing the widespread knowledge of such tales as Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel.”