An orphaned governess of fierce conscience falls for her brooding employer, Mr. Rochester — and discovers the secret locked in Thornfield's attic before she can accept him.
Books mentioned in Jane Eyre (8)
A History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick: “I returned to my book--Bewick's History of British Birds: the letterpress thereof I cared little for, generally speaking; and yet there were certain introductory pages that, child as I was, I could not pass quite as a blank.”
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: “Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word _book_ acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library.”
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson: “I saw a girl sitting on a stone bench near; she was bent over a book, on the perusal of which she seemed intent: from where I stood I could see the title--it was "Rasselas;" a name that struck me as strange, and consequently attractive.”
Marmion by Walter Scott: “While I was eagerly glancing at the bright pages of "Marmion" (for "Marmion" it was), St.”
The History of Rome by Oliver Goldsmith: “I had read Goldsmith's History of Rome, and had formed my opinion of Nero, Caligula, etc.”
Pamela by Samuel Richardson: “Reed's lace frills, and crimped her nightcap borders, fed our eager attention with passages of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and other ballads; or (as at a later period I discovered) from the pages of Pamela, and Henry, Earl of Moreland.”
A Thousand and One Nights: “I thought I could distinguish the two volumes of Bewick's British Birds occupying their old place on the third shelf, and Gulliver's Travels and the Arabian Nights ranged just above.”
Books that mention Jane Eyre (18)
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster: “I sat up half of last night reading Jane Eyre.”
Looking for Alaska by John Green: “Muting Decapitation would be like reading only every other word of Jane Eyre.”
Possession by A. S. Byatt: “she resembles the romantic Jane Eyre, so powerful, so passionate, so observant beneath her sober exterior.”
Among Others by Jo Walton: “It’s very tragic actually, a bit like Jane Eyre.”
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield: “My hand hovered instead over the old favorites: The Woman in White, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre… But it was no good.”
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “I wonder if Jane Eyre will pick me up.”
Matilda by Roald Dahl: “Library reading list: "Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte"”
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green: “On page 84 of my copy of Jane Eyre, why did I write, "You have never been so lonely"?”
The Every by Dave Eggers: “We can take, for example, two thousand readers of Jane Eyre and see who finished it.”
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson: “"I figure I'd like two good sets, big, like Dickens," he said, "and then a couple of smaller sets." "And a copy of Jane Eyre," his wife said, in her soft voice. — a customer buying books in "The Tooth"/bookstore-set story.”
The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf: “Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, David Copperfield, Richard Feverel all trod fast on each other's heels between the years 1847 and 1860.”
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan: “Wye Mun jokes 'I told you Jane Ear would come down sooner or later,' and his son Peik Wing corrects him: 'Jane Eyre was the nanny, Papa, not the woman who—'”
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth: “Ich bin durch Jane Eyre darauf gekommen.”
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “I liked novels with plucky heroines like Pippi Longstocking, the astringent Jane Eyre, and the daughters in Little Women.”
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood: “On my private shelves I've arranged my personal selection of proscribed books... Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Paradise Lost, Lives of Girls and Women—what a moral panic each one of them would cause if set loose among the Supplicants!”
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami: “Sara pulls out Jane Eyre from the shelf and reads until a seat at one of the computer stations opens up”
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk: “In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, the child Jane’s cruel Aunt Reed locks her in the Red Room”