Jane Eyre

The heroine is a governess, an orphan, penniless and plain but full of courage and spirit. The hero is a brooding, melancholy figure, a stranger given to rough outbursts of temper. They are the central characters in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre — a stormy, intense, and introspective novel which probed the psychology of passion and revolutionized the scope of romantic fiction.

With an afterword by Arthur Zeiger.