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M. THACKERAY, ESQ. THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED  \nBY THE AUTHOR  \nContents  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nPreface Chapter I  \nChapter II  \nChapter III  \nChapter IV  \nChapter V  \nChapter VI  \nChapter VII  \nChapter VIII  \nChapter IX  \nChapter X  \nChapter XI  \nChapter XII  \nChapter XIII  \nChapter XIV  \nChapter XV  \nChapter XVI  \nChapter XVII  \nChapter XVIII  \nChapter XIX  \nChapter XX  \nChapter XXI  \nChapter XXII  \nChapter XXIII  \nChapter XXIV  \nChapter XXV  \nChapter XXVI  \nChapter XXVII  \nChapter XXVIII  \nChapter XXIX  \nChapter XXX  \nChapter XXXI  \nChapter XXXII  \nChapter XXXIII  \nChapter XXXIV  \nChapter XXXV  \nChapter XXXVI  \nChapter XXXVII  \nChapter XXXVIII—Conclusion  \nEXTRAS  \n10 Things You Didn’t Know About Charlotte Brontë  \nIngredients for a Gothic Romance  \nQUIZ: What would you do in the name of love? Find out  \nhow you measure up against Jane Eyre!  \nChapter 1-Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen  \nCopyright  \nAbout the Publisher  \nPreface  \nApreface none:  \nto the first edition of Jane Eyre this second edition demands  \nacknowledgment and miscellaneous remark.  \nbeing unnecessary, I gave a few words both of  \nMy thanks are due in three quarters.  \nTo the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.  \nTo the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.  \nTo my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unrecommended Author.  \nThe Press and the Public are but vague personifications for me, and I must thank them in vague terms; but my Publishers are definite: so are certain generous critics who have encouraged me as only large-hearted and high-minded men know how to encourage a struggling stranger; to them, i.e., to my Publishers and the select Reviewers, I say cordially, Gentlemen, I thank you from my heart.  \nHaving thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so far as I know, but not, therefore, to be overlooked. I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as Jane Eyre: in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry—that parent of crime—an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth. I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions; I would remind them of certain simple truths.  \nConventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.  \nThese things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human  \ndoctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is—I repeat it—a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.  \nThe world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been accustomed to blend them; finding it convenient to make external show pass for sterling worth—to let white-washed walls vouch for clean shrines. It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and expose—to rase the gilding, and show base metal under it—to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is indebted to him.  \nAhab did not like Micaiah, because he never prophesied good concerning him, but evil; probably he liked the sycophant son of Chenaannah better; yet might Ahab have escaped a bloody death, had he but stopped his ears to flattery, and opened them to faithful counsel.  \nThere is a man in our own days whose words are not framed to tickle delicate ears: who, to my thinking, comes before the great ones of society, much as ","cbCaijRWcKnSxIIB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijRWcKnSxIIB","pdf",2681514,487,"English","# Preface\n## Acknowledgment and response to critics\n## The moral distinction between conventionality and religion\n# Chapter I\n## Opening scene and the weather preventing an outing","[{\"question\":\"What sets the scene at the start of Chapter I?\",\"answer\":\"The narrator cannot go out for a walk because of winter conditions—clouds, rain, and cold wind—forcing her to stay indoors.\"}]","Jane Eyre - Preface - Chapter I | PDF",1789949983,750]