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Summary: FANTASIC BOOK
Review: This book is one of my favorite books of all time. It is well thoughout and the story line is well developed through the whole book. It is such an interesting story you will never get bored of it. I would highly recommend everyone to read this book if you enjoy an interesting, serious, and creative book!
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Summary: Classic Romance
Review: This is one of the best books in the entire world it is an epic romance with an english twist. The story is that Jane's parents die and she goes to live with Mrs. Reed who's husband was her father's brother but he died several years back. Jane is sent away to a school were she learns things such as piano, arithmatic, etc. It is here that she meets Helen who is her age but a few months later everyone in the school comes down with an awful cough and the school is later closed but not in time Helen dies from tuberculosis. When Jane grows older she goes to be a governess for a little french girl named Adele. When Jane meets Adele's father Mr. Rochester they have a rocky time and you always want them to end up together but you never know if they will. This is a wonderful book in every single way. I hope that this review has helped you decide on reading this it is the perfect book.
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Summary: Fantastic! Loved it!
Review: This turned out to be an exceptional book though I didn't think so in the beginning. By what seems the hundredth page, I had decided it was a feminine version of David Copperfield but not as interesting. By the hundred and fiftieth page, I was completely discouraged and was sure it had turned into the very romantic mush I detest (a lot of what she feels about him and what he feels about her, and so on). Somewhere soon after that, I fell in and was absorbed. It became a tremendously good book with a fantastic plot and a good pace. I read for hours and hours at a sitting enjoying every single minute of it and only stopped when something absolutely forced me. Excellent, excellent!Jane Eyre is an orphaned child under the guardianship of her maternal aunt. Not liked by her aunt and not able to get along with her cousins, Jane is sent to Lowood School for the children of the poor (it is a charity school) to be taught the fundamentals and, more importantly, to be conditioned for a life of poor expectations. Lowood changes the strong willed, impetuous Jane into a woman of uncommon restraint. When she accepts a post as governess to Adele at Thornfield Hall, she attracts the attention of Mr. Rochester, the master of the house, who has the desire to reclaim himself from a sordid past. He comes to believe that Jane has the power to transform him and help him to realize himself in the better light that he has not heretofore been able to achieve on his own. But his secrets are not far away and peculiar events at Thornfield make the reader question his advances. Sworn not to ask about who or what is in the room on the third floor, Jane's iron resolve begins to falter with the dreamlike romance and the reader begins to trepiditiously hope for her happiness. When Mr. Rochester is unable to keep his past under wraps, however, Jane is forced onto a path that will require all of her internal resources to survive but will ultimately put her in the position to make choices for herself rather than just choose among available options. The question is, with her conditioning, can she lead with her heart instead of her head? My only legitimate greivance, and given only in the vein of humour, is that is seems like Jane would have taught Adele some English. The child speaks only in French and myself not being able to read French, I did not understand anything the child ever said. Luckily, her exuberance and intent still comes through and the reader can develop a softness for the child without understanding her dialogue.
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Summary: Why
Review: Why is this book so often one of the standards of literature programs in American Universities, but no one dares touch War and peace?
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Summary: A Perfect Ten. A Must-Read
Review: You have to read this book.
Why? Because you may love it.
Or, you may understand it.
And it's well worth the investment to pick up this book in order to do one or the other, or, with luck, both.
I read this book as a child, and it changed my life. Had I never read "Jane Eyre," I suspect I would be a different person, a lesser one.
When people ask me, "How did you come to travel the world ... write ... survive ... " there are many answers, but one of the most important is, "I read 'Jane Eyre.'"
As you quickly learn from other reviews, or from the jacket cover, "Jane Eyre" is about a girl who isn't much to look at, and hasn't any material wealth.
If you can't identify with that kind of a person, why should you read this book? There are two reasons.
You should read it because it is a classic of Western Civilization, and you should read it because it articulates, in an historically important and artistically excellent way, the insistence of one lowly born female on being a full human being.
When this book was written the words "We hold these truths to be self-evident" had already made history -- for men.
We still await the world where women are men's equals.
"Jane Eyre" has the courage to say, in relentlessly feminine language -- Jane never has to resort to a karate kick to make her point -- that women have just as much value as men. Not just women who make good eye candy. But really plain and poor and unexceptional women, as well.
"Jane Eyre" also says a heck of a lot about how women -- not all women but many -- most want to be loved. I think a man could learn much of what he needed or wanted to know about seduction just from reading this book.
I've read other reviews here that speak of this book with great love, and that speak of Jane as a living being. I've read of other reviewers who read this book at an early age and felt it changed their lives.
I'm part of that club.
Now, stop reading this and go read "Jane Eyre."
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