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EYREHEADS FANS OF `JANE EYRE' CAN SEE 1944 FILM VERSION FREE ON JAN. 23.(LIFESTYLE)

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From: The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Date: 20050112
Author:Stockinger, Jacob

Byline: Jacob Stockinger The Capital Times

Critics and professors may like to think that they, not the marketplace, keep great literature alive for the ages.

But in the case of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel "Jane Eyre," it was ordinary readers who preserved the work.

"It has never been out of print since it was first published in 1847. There aren't too many novels you can say that about," says Professor Caroline Levine, who has taught the book at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since she came here in 2002, after doing undergraduate work at Princeton and ...

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