Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates .Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS'sThe Great American Read

Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Bronte'sJane Eyreerupted 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, Bronte's masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern,Jane Eyreendures as one of the world's most beloved novels.