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Page 216
... Jane's tri- umph in the battle of the sexes . Synopsize it , and the story of Jane Eyre immediately be- comes nonsense . For years Mr. Rochester has kept a luna- tic wife on the third floor of his country house , in the charge of a gin ...
... Jane's tri- umph in the battle of the sexes . Synopsize it , and the story of Jane Eyre immediately be- comes nonsense . For years Mr. Rochester has kept a luna- tic wife on the third floor of his country house , in the charge of a gin ...
Page 217
... Jane hastens back to Thornfield , learns that Mrs. Rochester has again fired the house and that a burning beam has fallen on Rochester and blinded him , the wretched woman having been killed jumping off the roof . Jane finds Rochester ...
... Jane hastens back to Thornfield , learns that Mrs. Rochester has again fired the house and that a burning beam has fallen on Rochester and blinded him , the wretched woman having been killed jumping off the roof . Jane finds Rochester ...
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... Jane Eyre would be incoherent , for as a con- struction it is artless . Yet because of the unity of tone , the melodramatic incredibilities scarcely matter ; they are false to observed reality but not false to Charlotte Brontë's shaping ...
... Jane Eyre would be incoherent , for as a con- struction it is artless . Yet because of the unity of tone , the melodramatic incredibilities scarcely matter ; they are false to observed reality but not false to Charlotte Brontë's shaping ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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