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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

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Gothic, passionate, intelligent, truly romantic. I'm tempted to say that everyone should read it. ( )
  ChocolateMuse | Nov 3, 2009 |
This was a good read, but I wasn't too impressed. Chapter 28 was my favorite. ( )
  Anagarika | Nov 3, 2009 |
Jane Eyre, oh where do I start? This book isn’t one I just picked off the shelf. I heard about it in another book I was reading, so I thought I’d check it out. And now, it’s part of me for life.

Yes, I had to use my dictionary to dust off my French to get through it. I also had to guess at some Old English, but those are the only negatives.

As soon as I saw that Little Jane went to a private school, I was sucked in. As big of nerd as I am, I think I would have loved a private school.

From page one until the end, there is never a dull moment. And you grow with Jane from the time she is 10. You see a child become a woman. You also get to see a completely different world than we ever know or can even imagine. As soon as you think there will be calm, the plot thickens and you are left once more in amazement.

One of the things I like most about this book is the history. It’s 162 years old and written by a woman. Charlotte Bronte was not the only author in her family. Her two sisters were also writers and they all wrote under aliases. Many thought it was men writing these amazing stories.
This is a book I will read time and time again. One, I know I missed parts. Two, I just loved the story and don’t think it’ll ever get old.

I give Jane Eyre 5 bookmarks and if you haven’t read it, I highly suggest it. (Sorry, no bookmarks to add to this post. I can’t get them to go at the bottom of the page. Still learning blogger format.) ( )
1 vote kariannalysis | Oct 30, 2009 |
Mixing drama, some horror, passion plus slightly portentous chunks of religion this is a yarn that keeps you hooked. Probably what a female version of Dickens would have penned. ( )
  Philhclark | Oct 28, 2009 |
The story is good and interesting
Mariam ( )
  getreadingswc | Oct 27, 2009 |
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To W.M. Thackeray, Esq.
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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
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Reader, I married him.
I could not answer the ceaseless inward question - why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of - I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.
Do you think because I am poor, obscure plain and little that I am souless and heartless? You think wrong. I have a much soul as you and full as much heart, and if God had granted me some beauty and much wealth I should have made it as hard for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave you.
But I tell you -- and you may mark my words -- you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current -- as I am now.
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Please keep the Norton Critical Edition books un-combined with the rest of them - it is significantly different with thorough explanatory annotations and with essays by other authors.
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Canonical titleJane Eyre
Original publication date1847
People/CharactersJane Eyre, Edward Rochester, Grace Poole, Bertha Mason (Rochester), St. John Eyre Rivers, Alice Fairfax (show all 23)
Important placesThornfield Hall, Yorkshire, Gateshead Hall, Lowood School, Morton, England, Moor House (aka Marsh End), Yorkshire, England, UK
Awards and honorsBBC's Big Read (Best loved novel, 2003, No 10), The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time (2003), Guardian 1000 (Love), Whitcoulls top 100, 2008 (34), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006/2008 Edition), The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library (2008) (show all 8)
DedicationTo W.M. Thackeray, Esq. This work is respectfully inscribed, by The Author
First wordsThere was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
QuotationsReader, I married him., I could not answer the ceaseless inward question - why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of - I will not say how many years, I see it clearly., Do you think because I am poor, obscure plain and little that I am souless and heartless? You think wrong. I have a much soul as you and full as much heart, and if God had granted me some beauty and much wealth I should have... (show all)
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0142437204, Paperback)

Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a richer life than that traditionally allowed women in Victorian society.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Michael Mason

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