These are the three great works of the Bronté sisters. Jane Eyre had immediate success when it was published in 1847. The story of Jane Eyre and her ill-starred, unlikely, but tenacious love for Mr Rochester has remained a much-loved classic.

Wuthering Ileights, Emily Bronté's only novel, was badly received when it was published soon aner Jane Eyre; the public found it rough and strange. Dominated by the passionate Heathcliff and his consuming relationship with Catherine, it has become ope of the most popular of all English novels.

Anne Bronté's second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell, was a dramatic challenge to Victorian conventions. Its heroine, Helen Huntingdon, chooses to leave her dissolute husband and rescue their son from his influence, determining to make her own way in the world. This selection of the Brontés' work demonstrates the remarkable range of their powers. No one had achieved such a combination of realism and romance before, and these novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century.
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