Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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Rollover, Kanye!


I highly recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel, curated by Stevie Davis: the endnotes are excellent (if occasionally spoiler-y), and the broader critical apparatus is enlightening. The edition I hold in the video is the Clothbound Classics one, but the paperback is much cheaper.
US readers, buy the paperback Penguin Classics on IndieBound (yep I'm an affiliate):
indiebound.org/book/9780141441146?aff=TheBookchemist

UK & other European readers, buy it on Blackwell's (also an affiliate):
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Jane-Eyre-by-Charlotte-Bront-Stevie-Davies/9780141441146/?a_aid=TheBookchemist


Here is a link to the video with additional commentary I mention in this one:
youtube.com/watch?v=vGwK051oc4o

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