Jane Eyre (Édition bilingue: français - anglais / Bilingual Edition: French - English)

Cette édition contient la traduction française et le texte original en anglais. « Jane Eyre » est un roman de Charlotte Brontë publié le 16 octobre 1847 en Angleterre sous le pseudonyme de Currer Bell. Il a paru en France pour la première fois en 1854 sous le titre « Jane Eyre ou Mémoires d’une gouvernante ». Il a été adapté plusieurs fois pour le cinéma. L'histoire est présentée comme l'autobiographie de l'héroïne. "Jane Eyre" (originally published as "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography") is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Primarily of the "Bildungsroman" genre, "Jane Eyre" follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the Byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalisation of the action—the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility, and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry—"Jane Eyre" revolutionised the art of fiction. Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel's exploration of classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism.