Hello, welcome to the Bore You to Sleep podcast, the podcast that will hopefully help you get to sleep.

I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is

hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep.

Tonight, we're going to look at a book called Jane Ear, an auto biography by Charlotte Bronte,

copyrighted in 1897.

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Jane Ear, an autoography by Charlotte Bronte.

The preface.

A preface to the first edition of Jane Ear being unnecessary.

I gave none.

This second edition demands a few words,

both of acknowledgement and miscellaneous remark.

My thanks are due in three quarters.

To the public, for the indulgent ear,

it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.

To the press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.

To my publishers, for the aid, their tact, their energy, their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unrecommended author.

The press and the public are but vague personifications for me,

and I must thank them in vague terms but my publishers are definite so are certain generous

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