The hero of Charlotte Brontes first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter, complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both teacher and pupil in Reuters school. Paperback , 316 pages Published January 26th 1989 by Penguin Classics (first published 1857)