num_pages: 453
description: A gorgeous deft literary retelling of Charlotte Bronte's beloved Jane Eyre--through the eyes of the dashing mysterious Mr. Rochester himself.Reader she married me.For one hundred seventy years Edward Fairfax Rochester has stood as one of literature's most romantic most complex and most mysterious heroes. Sometimes haughty sometimes tender-professing his love for Jane Eyre in one breath and denying it in the next-Mr. Rochester has for generations mesmerized beguiled and yes baffled fans of Charlotte Bront's masterpiece. But his own story has never been told.Now out of Sarah Shoemaker's rich and vibrant imagination springs Edward: a vulnerable brilliant complicated man whom we first meet as a motherless lonely little boy roaming the corridors and stable yards of Thornfield Hall. On the morning of Edward's eighth birthday his father issues a decree: He is to be sent away to get an education exiled from Thornfield and all he ever loved. As the determined young Edward begins his journey across England making friends and enemies along the way a series of eccentric mentors teach him more than he might have wished about the ways of the men-and women-who will someday be his peers.But much as he longs to be accepted-and to return to the home where he was born-his father has made clear that Thornfield is reserved for his older brother Rowland and that Edward's inheritance lies instead on the warm languid shores of faraway Jamaica. That island however holds secrets of its own and not long after his arrival Edward finds himself entangled in morally dubious business dealings and a passionate whirlwind love affair with the town's ravishing heiress Antoinetta Bertha Mason.Eventually after a devastating betrayal Edward must return to England with his increasingly unstable wife to take over as master of Thornfield. And it is there on a twilight ride that he meets the stubborn plain young governess who will teach him how to love again.It is impossible not to watch enthralled as this tender-hearted child grows into the tormented hero Bront immortalized-and as Jane surprises them both by stealing his heart. Mr. Rochester is a great sweeping classic coming-of-age story and a stirring tale of adventure romance and deceit. Faithful in every particular to Bront's original yet full of unexpected twists and riveting behind-the-scenes drama this novel will completely deliciously and forever change how we read and remember Jane Eyre.
language: English
title: Mr. Rochester
publisher: Grand Central Publishing