Jane Eyre
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Publisher Description
In Charlotte Bronte's undisputed Masterpiece, Jane Eyre is an orphan who's sent to boarding school, where she encounters a wicked headmaster. After leaving school, Jane finds employment as a governess, and falls secretly in love with her employer. A typhus epidemic, devastation crises, and love lost and found again make for one of the Victorian era's great romances.
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Whether one treasures this classic piece of literature as an old companion or has no acquaintance with it at all, the listener is in for a treat. Reader Bentinck draws us at once into the trials assailing the orphaned and ill-treated 10-year-old Jane. Bentinck's soft voice, flawless rhythms, and cultured British accent are exactly what's needed to guide listeners through this heroine's wild history of tribulations and jubilations. She portrays men, women, and children of different classes quite convincingly, and illuminates a wide range of nuanced emotions as Jane encounters hunger and cruelty as well as tender friendships at school, then a world of anger, fear, defeat, humor, sarcasm, affection, and exaltation as teacher and governess. The remarkable plot, the carefully delineated characters, and Bentinck's acting facility make the journey an intriguing and memorable experience.
