a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving
Alexandra Horowitz examines the animal we think we know best but may actually understand the least
he was a revolutionary fighter
I just couldn't see a way out
This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë religion a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumblesJane Eyre is a wildly emotional romance with a lonely heroine and a tormented Byronic hero, pathetic orphans, dark secrets, and a madwoman in the attic. When it was published in 1847, it was a great popular success. The power of the writing, the masterly handling of the narrative, and the boldly realistic style were much admired. But many found it difficult to believe that Currer Bell, the pseudonymous author, was Charlotte Bront , a young woman from