The most romantic literary lovers in history: Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester. Oliver Mellors and Constance Chatterley. Marie Shabata and Emil Bergson. Now, all three of their classic stories are collected in one volume: The Classic Romance Collection – Volume I featuring Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre, ‘ D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ and Willa Cather’s ‘O Pioneers!’
First, the story of young, orphaned Jane Eyre who is turned away from her family and must make her own way in the world. When she is hired on as a governess for a rich landowner, she becomes attracted to the brooding and mysterious master of the manor who harbors a dark and terrible secret. Truly one of the great romance novels of all time.
Next, D.H. Lawrence’s controversial and sensational novel of infidelity and sexual awakening, ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover.’ Banned in multiple countries for its shocking and frank language, this is the story of Lady Constance Chatterley whose husband is confined to a wheelchair. When she takes on her husband’s groundskeeper Mellors as a lover, her entire world is upended as both class and societal barriers collapse around her.
Finally, Willa Cather’s breakout drama of love on the prairie, ‘O Pioneers!’ At the center of this novel of life on the great plains is the romance of Marie Shabata, trapped in an unhappy marriage, and her would-be lover Emil who attempts to flee his attraction to her but is continually drawn back, unable to resist the pull of their forbidden passion.
Three classic novels of love, drama and romance collected together for the first time, these books are presented in their original and unabridged format.
About the author
Willa Cather was an American novelist who wrote tales of the Great Plains and stories of immigrant and migrant families who settled the American West. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her book ‘One of Ours, ‘ which explored romantic idealism, the frustrations of life in middle America and how World War I profoundly changed the lives of the young men who fought in the conflict. It was published in 1923.Cather was born in Virginia, but her family relocated to Nebraska when Willa was nine years old. They settled in the town of Red Cloud, where her father initially attempted to become a farmer, but eventually moved into the real estate and insurance business. Willa attended school for the first time after the family arrived in Nebraska.Eventually, she would graduate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and spend ten years in Pittsburgh, working as a teacher and a magazine editor at Home Monthly, often contributing her own stories and poems to the publication. After working at the Pittsburgh Leader, Cather moved to New York and began working as an editor at Mc Clure’s Magazine where she also contributed stories. They would eventually serialize her first novel, ‘Alexander’s Bridge’ in 1912.Cather followed up her first book with what would become known as the ‘Prairie Trilogy’: ‘O Pioneers!’ (1913), ‘Song of the Lark’ (1915) and ‘My Antonia’ 1918. By this time, Cather had firmly established herself as a writer and her Pulitzer for ‘One of Ours’ would forever cement her as a major figure in American literature. Her follow-up, ‘Death Comes for the Archbishop’ (1927) would be cited as one of Modern Library’s Best 100 Novels of the 20th century.She lived with her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, for 39 years before developing breast cancer and dying of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1947. She is buried beside Lewis in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
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