No account needed for chapter one. A free account opens the whole text.
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1847 · Horror & Gothic, Romance, Drama & Literary
Orphaned and unloved, Jane Eyre grows up at the cruel charity school of Lowood and takes a post as governess at brooding Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with its dark, secretive master, Mr Rochester - only to discover, at the very altar, the terrible secret locked in his attic. Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is one of the greatest of all English novels: a fierce, first-person story of a plain, poor woman who will not be owned, and who holds to her own worth through love, temptation, and loss. Complete and richly illustrated.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 21 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
This edition
- Title
- Jane Eyre
- Author
- Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)
- First published
- 1847
- Illustrated plates
- 46 original artworks · 21 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 38 · about 184,567 words
- Reading time
- 12 h 18 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #1260
Neighbours in the library
Chosen by what they share with Jane Eyre — the same genre.