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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

NovelEnglish 1847 187k words

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Contents

1Chapter 1 2Chapter 2 3Chapter 3 4Chapter 4 5Chapter 5 6Chapter 6 7Chapter 7 8Chapter 8 9Chapter 9 10Chapter 10 11Chapter 11 12Chapter 12 13Chapter 13 14Chapter 14 15Chapter 15 16Chapter 16 17Chapter 17 18Chapter 18 19Chapter 19 20Chapter 20 21Chapter 21 22Chapter 22 23Chapter 23 24Chapter 24 25Chapter 25 26Chapter 26 27Chapter 27 28Chapter 28 29Chapter 29 30Chapter 30 31Chapter 31 32Chapter 32 33Chapter 33 34Chapter 34 35Chapter 35 36Chapter 36 37Chapter 37 38Chapter 38 39Preface01 40Preface02

Why it is here

The first novel to put an ordinary woman's interior life at the centre of the plot — now past a million ratings.

Readership record

Global readership rank#4 of 100

Readership score88.9 / 100

Goodreads ratings1,286,135

Average rating4.10 / 5

Gutenberg 30-day rank#13

Gutenberg downloads104,481

First published1847

FormNovel

OriginEnglish

Length187k words

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Lists used: NEH 1984 core reading list, a 1,000-voter US school-reading survey, and a consolidated current-curriculum survey.

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