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A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light

A former foster kid, Jane has led a solitary life as a waitress in the suburbs, working hard to get by. Tired of years of barely scraping together a living, Jane takes classes to become a legal assistant and shortly after graduating accepts a job offer at a distinguished law firm in downtown Toronto. Everyone at the firm thinks she is destined for failure because her boss is the notoriously difficult Edward Rosen, the majority stakeholder of Rosen, Haythe & Thornfield LLP. But Jane has known far worse trials and refuses to back down when economic freedom is so close at hand. Edward has never been able to keep an assistant—he’s too loud, too messy, too ill-tempered. There’s something about the quietly competent, delightfully sharp-witted Jane that intrigues him though. As their orbits overlap, their feelings begin to develop—first comes fondness and then something more. But when Edward’s secrets put Jane’s independence in jeopardy, she must face long-ignored ghosts from her past and decide if opening her heart is a risk worth taking.

La vida de Jane Eyre da un vuelco tras la muerte de su padre. Acogida en casa de su tía y sus primos, sufrirá maltrato físico y psicológico hasta ser enviada al siniestro internado Lowood, donde vivirá una experiencia de miseria y privaciones. Ya adulta, comienza a trabajar como institutriz en Thorfield Hall, que en inglés significa "campo de espinos". Allí conocerá el amor del señor Rochester, tutor de la niña a la que ella enseña. Pero el señor Rochester tiene un pasado oscuro, un pasado que tiene que ver con el lugar donde viven. Cuando Jane descubra el secreto que se esconde en el ático de la mansión, su vida no volverá a ser la misma. En Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte demostró una capacidad insólita para describir los sentimientos de los personajes. Considerada una de las primeras novelas feministas, esta obra magistral da origen a una gran tradición de mujeres fuertes, capaces de enfrentarse a un destino adverso y de tomar las riendas de su vida.