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Random House Inc. 01/01/2000. The lives of two unhappy and disappointed sisters are followed over the course of many years, during which Beatrice gives up her career as a pianist, grows old, and dies, and Miriam becomes involved with a married man who never gives her what she desires--a conventional life as someone's wife. Originally published at $12.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Monarch Notes. 07/01/1988. Reissue. Charlotte Brontė's first novel, published in 1847, was based in part on the author's own days in a brutal boarding school where two of her sisters died of tuberculosis; her characterization of the place in her first published work was an act of revenge. The novel's heroine is a plain, impoverished, but spirited young governess who not only wins the heart of her employer--the jaded, Byronic Mr. Rochester--but manages to defy the social conventions of her time to become a strong and fulfilled adult. Told by Jane herself as she looks back over her life, JANE EYRE became the prototype for the classic Gothic novel set in a wild, windswept location where a naļve heroine must cope with ghosts and the supernatural. It has also inspired countless romance novels and created the bitter, brooding hero who is brought back to life by the goodness and innocence of the woman who loves him. Brontė's tale, however, transcends the genres it inspired. Jane's search for love and for meaning also includes a refusal to accept less than she feels is her due. Brontė sees that quest as a moral one, and a critical exploration of the paradoxes of the English class system and of Victorian gender relations is an integral part of the book. But the main reason for its position as an enduring classic is that JANE EYRE is a stirring and satisfying tale, a page-turner. It was a bestseller in its day and remains popular today--the quintessential coming-of-age story that still has resonance for young women who are struggling to find the balance between romantic love and personal freedom. Originally published at $3.95 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/1998. 322 pgs. In a southern town, Easter Lily Odum, a beautiful black woman, is charged with the murder of a white man. No one seems to care that she claims to have been defending herself against a rapist--particularly not the lead prosecutor on her case, who is also the victim's brother. Then New York City attorney Shep Riley arrives to protect Easter Lily from the South's particular brand of justice, and learns that in the South, nothing is simply black and white. Originally published at $25.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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