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This edition published 2012
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ISBN 978-1-4027-8533-7 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-4027-9855-9 (ebook)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816–1855.
  Jane Eyre / by Charlotte Bronte. -- [Young adults ed.]

        p. cm.

  The text is complete and unedited.

  ISBN 978-1-4027-8533-7 (trade pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Governesses--England--Fiction. 2. Young women--England--Fiction. I. Title.

  PR4167.J3 2011
  823’.8--dc22

2010038129

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CONTENTS

VOLUME-1

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A NOTE FROM COVER ILLUSTRATOR,

While illustrating the Classic Lines covers, I knew I had to do my research. Besides being inspired by these novels and their characters, I looked for inspiration from various film productions based on the books. It was important for me to understand how people would have moved about in their constrictive, yet beautiful, clothing. I tried to imagine what it could have felt like to go about life in billowing skirts and bonnets or heavy wool capes and riding boots—and then move through high winds and rain. It was as if the costumes themselves, with a backdrop of the English countryside, spun their very own stories about the constraints of society and the untamed nature of the human heart.

I also saw an exhibition on historical fashions at Nordiska Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. It was very inspiring to see, up close, the different fabrics and delicately tailored pieces from this chapter in fashion history. I took snapshots and then, at my studio, made many drawings with watery brush strokes and old-fashioned metal-nib ink pens on smooth paper. As I drew and painted, I found that an economy of lines and quick washes of watercolor could speedily, yet effectively, convey older fashions to modern readers. I chose my best paper drawings, scanned them and then stitched them together, building the past with pixels and megabytes. Even though I was conveying a historical period, I wanted to express the sprite sensuality that is always part of fashion in any time period.

COUTURE SPECIFICATIONS

This book was set in Lapidary 333 Roman, a typeface designed by Eric Gill in the year two-thousand, and printed on Enviro Antique White paper at Transcontinental Printing, Canada. The cover features deluxe French flaps and luxurious Soft-Touch lamination finishes. This unique edition of the classic novel Jane Eyre was published in the Spring season of the year two-thousand and twelve by Splinter, an imprint of Sterling Children’s Books, New York.