Alexandra Horowitz examines the animal we think we know best but may actually understand the least
a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving
Benjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels
focusing especially on one of Princeton's most distinguished features: its unrivaled reputation for undergraduate education
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Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë religion Alexandra Horowitz examines the animalJane Eyre is a wildly emotional romance with a lonely heroine and a tormented Byronic hero, pathetic orphans, dark secrets, and a madwoman in the attic. When it was published in 1847, it was a great popular success. The power of the writing, the masterly handling of the narrative, and the boldly realistic style were much admired. But many found it difficult to believe that Currer Bell, the pseudonymous author, was Charlotte Bront , a young woman from