"A cursed, damaged, aging wretch as I had no right to one so innocent, lovely, good, and gifted as she. Yet . . . I would have her. And soon." Set in 1840, Rochester: A Thornfield Story is an imaginative exploration of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and its prequel Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, told through the eyes of their fiercely sensuous and introspective leading man, Edward Fairfax Rochester. Passionate and worldly, he tells...