{"product_id":"jane-eyre","title":"Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eWidely regarded as one of the finest novels in the English language, \u003cem\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/em\u003e has also remained one of the most popular.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Such a strange book! Imagine a novel with a little swarthy governess for heroine, and a middle-aged ruffian for hero,\" wrote a contemporary reviewer. Charlotte Brontë concluded that publishers preferred the \"wild, wonderful, thrilling\" to the \"plain and homely\" when her first novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Professor\u003c\/em\u003e, was rejected. Certainly \u003cem\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/em\u003e contains much that is \"wild\", and equally certainly it was welcomed by publishers and public alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first edition in 1847 was followed by a second and third in quick succession, and had already reached a fifth edition before Mrs Gaskell's \u003cem\u003eLife\u003c\/em\u003e of the author in 1857 stimulated such an interest that 55,000 copies of \u003cem\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/em\u003e were printed in two years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Story Station","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50234790641903,"sku":"JAN05210","price":69.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/6538\/6223\/files\/asdasda_3072aa61-5ce8-4ad6-9477-1a7b8e22adee.jpg?v=1785444774","url":"https:\/\/www.thestorystation.co.za\/products\/jane-eyre","provider":"The Story Station","version":"1.0","type":"link"}