'The masterwork of a great genius' William Makepeace ThackerayA novel of intense emotional power, heightened atmosphere and fierce intelligence, Jane Eyre dazzled and shocked readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom on her own terms. Its heroine Jane endures loneliness and cruelty in the home of her heartless aunt and the cold charity of Lowood School. Her natural independence and spirit prove necessary when she ta...

Charlie - It all began when I saw him in a red Chevy parked at the edge of a cliff. Xander. I was lost...and he was a lost soul. He drove me home, and before he disappeared into the dead of the night, he dropped a bombshell on me. Then he left, and it left me reeling, wondering whether he had made it through the night...and the summer. Until I saw him on my first day of school, and from that day, everything he did consumed me. He was the type of guy that could make you fall in love with ju...

'That's the depth of my love for her; the fact that I see her in places she is not, simply because that's where I believe she should be. We weren't made to be apart.'QUINNShe left me. I fell hard for her and hit rock bottom even harder. Now she's back and my world has beenturned upside down again. My body craves her and my heart loves her, but her return has brought back all the pain. Every emotion I had buried has come rushing in. I want to hate her, but dammit, I can't ev...

Warren was the boy Kate always had a crush on as a girl. Her brother’s best friend.And his murderer.A decade after Warren was imprisoned, Kate’s life hasn’t quite turned out how she’d have liked. She works for her father’s seedy nightclub-turned-casino, trying to outrun her suicidal thoughts, knowing that eventually she’ll run out of breath.But when her father loses the business — and their house with it — Kate’s breathing finally begins to stutter.Kate was t...

Although the Brontës have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic. Charlotte (1816-1855) is certainly a competent poet, and Anne (1820-1849) developed a distinctive voice, while Emily (1818-1848) is one of the great women poets in English.Read together with their novels, the poems movingly elucidate the ideas around which the narratives revolve. And they surpris...