Jane Eyre

Orphaned, plain, and raised on the cold charity of an aunt who never wanted her, Charlotte Brontë's fieriest heroine refuses, at every turn, to be grateful for less than she deserves. When she arrives at Thornfield Hall as governess after a grueling Lowood education , she meets Mr. Rochester — brooding, rich, magnificently rude and unpredictable — and finds herself, against all good sense, wanting more....