Keynote Classics¿ feature an Introductory Key and wide margins for note-taking to help you get more from your reading experience and remember, discuss, or write more confidently about classic literature. ¿ Keynote Classics¿ No-spoiler study guides don't give away themes, motifs, and symbols but simply point out general ideas and things to pay attention to that help you find your own interpretations¿ Includes brief historical context about the author and the time and place the novel was written to help gain important perspective as you read. ¿ Provides 10 suggested topics for discussion and/or essay writing.¿ Teachers recommend that you read actively and engage with the text to help you draw on your own knowledge and experience to get at the meat of a novel. Keynote Classics paperbacks provide extra wide margins to jot down your thoughts, connections, and interpretations while you read.Jane Eyre, An Autobiography: An instant best-seller in 1847, this coming-of-age novel of hardship, rebellion, and seduction will stick with you long after you've finished reading. A young orphan girl enduring cruelty and loss is forced to find her own way in oppressive Victorian England and becomes a governess in a Gothic mansion that has dark and terrifying secrets. When the mysterious master of the house returns, her carefully cultivated moral courage is stretched to the limit. This novel of a nineteenth century woman, determination to have both love and independence, was revolutionary at the time and continues to have resonance today.About the Author: Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816. Growing up in the remote Yorkshire Moors, a box of toy soldiers prompted creative play for Charlotte and her siblings, for whom writing stories was prime entertainment. Her two sisters, Emily and Anne Brontë, also grew up to be accomplished writers. Jane Eyre was highly influential as the first novel to be told in the first person narrative from the perspective of a female character. Her other novels include Villette, Shirley, and The Professor. Charlotte Brontë died of tuberculosis shortly after her marriage in 1855.