Charlotte Brontë
1) Jane Eyre
Author
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates--a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name. But her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester. Recently widowed, Eddie is...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
You may think you know the story. Penniless orphan Jane Eyre begins a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester--and, Reader, she marries him. Or does she? Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which all is not as it seems, a certain gentleman is hiding more than skeletons in his closets, and orphan Jane Eyre, aspiring author Charlotte Bronte, and supernatural investigator Alexander Blackwood...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
" ... introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amid a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind." -- Page [4] of cover.
6) Poems
Author
Pub. Date
1978
Physical Desc
xii, iv, 165 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Poetry reflecting the early Victorian trends in literature. "Love is like the wild rose-briar, Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?" A volume of poetry written by the Bronte sisters described by Emily, the middle sister, as "crude thoughts of the unripe mind."
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two hundred years after a supervolcano causes an ice age that makes earth uninhabitable, seventeen-year-old Stella Ainsley quits her engineering job on an old space ship to accept a position as governess on the Rochester, a private space ship orbiting the moon. As she falls in love with the ship's brooding and reclusive captain and slowly befriends the secretive crew, Stella uncovers a plot that threatens the entire interstellar fleet.
8) Jane Eyre
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Letterboxed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn...secrets that could destroy her happiness.
9) Jane Eyre
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she's intrigued by her brooding, wealthy employer, Rochester. His dark moods and the strange occurrences in the house lead her to discover a terrible secret that he had hoped to hide from her forever.
11) Five novelettes
Author
Pub. Date
1971
Physical Desc
367 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
13) Mr. Rochester
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On his eighth birthday, Edward Rochester is banished from his beloved Thornfield Hall to learn his place in life. His journey eventually takes him to Jamaica where, as a young man, he becomes entangled with an enticing heiress and makes a choice that will haunt him. It is only when he finally returns home and encounters one stubborn, plain, young governess, that Edward can see any chance of redemption - and love.
14) Jane
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this contemporary retelling of "Jane Eyre," an orphaned nanny becomes entranced with her magnetic and brooding employer, a rock star with a torturous secret from his past.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer. Inspired by Charlotte Brontë's classic, Jane Steele is a brilliant and deeply satirical romance about identity, guilt, goodness, and the nature of lies.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
144 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In graphic novel format, presents an adaptation of Brontë's story about an orphaned young English woman who accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysterious and remote Mr. Rochester.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jane has lost everything: job, mother, relationships, even her home. A friend calls to offer an unusual deal--a cottage above the crashing surf of Big Sur on the estate of his employer, Evan Rochester. In return, Jane will tutor his teenage daughter. She accepts. But nothing is quite as it seems at the Rochester estate. Though he's been accused of murdering his glamorous and troubled wife, Evan Rochester insists she drowned herself. Jane is skeptical,...
18) Emma Brown
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
19) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the story of an orphaned young English woman who accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
454 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Overview: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights has been called the most beautiful, most profoundly violent love story of all time. At its center are Catherine and Heathcliff, and the self-contained world of Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange, and the wild Yorkshire moors that the characters inhabit. "I am Heathcliff," Catherine declares. In her introduction Janet Gezari examines Catherine's assertion and in her notes maps it to questions that flicker...