Description: Even after the resounding triumph of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte could persuade no-one to publish The Professor, her first novel. This story of William Crimsworth, who goes to Brussels to seek his fortune, falls in love with Frances, a schoolteacher and lace-maker, and is himself pursued by Mlle Reuter, is a subtle self-made man and his relationships in a society that worships property and propriety. ***

Description: This great novel is written in an autobiographical style and tells the story of Jane Eyre, who was orphaned at an early age and taken in by her uncle, Mr. Reed, who shortly also died, leaving her in the care of her cruel Aunt, Mrs. Reed, and at the mercy of her malicious cousin, John Reed. However, at the age of ten Jane Eyre leaves the Reed household to attent a charity boarding school known as Lowood where she befriends the mild mannered Helen Burns and gains the education that allows her, at the age of eighteen, to take a position as a Governess at Thornfield Hall. Here she meets the 'dark and sardonic' Mr. Rochester and falls in love with him. But alas, their union is not to be when Jane discovers a dark secret of Mr. Rochester's that forces her to leave Thornfield Hall and her chance of happiness as a married woman.

Description: Čtenářsky velmi oblíbený román z viktoriánské éry. Romantický příběh velké osudové lásky Jany Eyrové a pana Rochestera je známý také z mnohých filmových zpracování. Jde o dílo, které je něčím víc, než růžovou knihovnou. Zjevuje totiž pravdu o světě lidských bojů, proher a vítězství. Gabriela Vránová ve své interpretaci klade hlavní důraz na nadšení hlavní hrdinky utkat se čestně se svým osudem i její neutuchající víru a naději.

Jane struggles to learn at school as she finds rules oppressive. She meets Helen Burns, a fragile girl, who shows her what friendship and love are all about. Although her time at the school is unpleasant, her determined character help to mature into a trusted pupil and knowing that her relatives do not ant her back she applies for the position of governess.

Description: Arguably Brontë's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings.
Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees her independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Lucy flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the cosmopolitan capital of Villette. But her struggle for independence is soon overshadowed by her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Brontë's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free.

Description: Jane, una povera orfanella che ha trascorso la fanciullezza in un triste asilo di Lowood, dopo anni di stenti e di solitudine, viene assunta come governante in casa Rochester. Il cinico padrone finisce per innamorarsi di lei ma quando si sta per celebrare il matrimonio, una scoperta viene a sconvolgere la vita della fanciulla: la moglie di Rochester, creduta morta, è ancora in vita, prigioniera della pazzia.