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Summary: By Far, The Best
Review: "Jane Eyre" has been my favorite book for years! Charlotte Bronte did an excellent job of exploring human nature and the depth of a person's character. The story follows a young woman who sets out to find her place in the world with the education she has received. Jane goes through some interesting and hard experiences that teach her forgiveness, understanding, and help her discover the inner strength she possesses and become a godly woman. Portraying a Christian woman's struggles who faces the realities of a hard life, and deals with what is given her, is encouraging to me. No other book has touched me the way this book has. Read it... it's more than worth your time.
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Summary: I love Jane Eyre but the Footnotes Ruined It
Review: Don't get me wrong, Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books. However, this version of Jane Eyre has millions of footnotes so you are forced to constantly flip back and forth to see if the footnotes are saying anything useful.
When the character Adele is speaking paragraphs of French, they don't bother translating it for you but they will gleefully tell you what's going to happen one-hundred pages later in the book.
Reading this version of Jane Eyre is like watching a movie with an over-enthusiatic friend who keeps talking through the whole movie and telling you what's going to happen. If you're going to read Jane Eyre, I would reccomend different version
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Summary: A GREAT classic!
Review: I absolutely love this romantic classic. Although it is something that I might be asked to read in an English class, this is my favorite book ever and I have read it many times. Nice and thick and full of details, it paints a colorful image of life in England during that time period.
This book shows the struggles of poor, unwanted Jane, first in the Lowood charity school, then in her search to find a family that will hire her as a governess. This is how she winds of at Thornsfield Hall, employed by Mr. Rochester, a man who could be Jane's father. Despite this fact, Jabe slowly falls in love with him. However, Mr. Rochester is hiding a secret in the attic that could destroy his and Jane's love.
This is the most romantic story I've ever read, and I recommend anyone buying it! It is not boring at all!
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Summary: The Best Book I Ever Read!!!
Review: In short, Jane Eyre is the story of a fairly unconventional life. Jane is orpahned when she is young and sent to live with her Aunt Reed, to a horrible "school", then to work as a governess at Edward Rochester's home. She falls in love with Mr. Rochester but his secrets may make it imposible for them to ever be together.
The book has a really slow, melodic feel to it, so if you like fast reads, it is not the book you're looking for.
This is one of the best books I have ever read, so good its one of few that I have actually read several times over. Definately a classic.
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Summary: The Best Book I Ever Read!!!
Review: In short, Jane Eyre is the story of a fairly unconventional life. Jane is orpahned when she is young and sent to live with her Aunt Reed, to a horrible "school", then to work as a governess at Edward Rochester's home. She falls in love with Mr. Rochester but his secrets may make it imposible for them to ever be together.
The book has a really slow, melodic feel to it, so if you like fast reads, it is not the book you're looking for.
This is one of the best books I have ever read, so good its one of few that I have actually read several times over. Definately a classic.
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Summary: Absolutely brilliant!
Review: Jane Eyre is definitely on my list of top novels. I have read it quite a few times and I have enjoyed it each time. Actually Charlotte Bronte was being quite daring in creating this heroine. Jane was a new development in fiction during the time of the writing of this novel (1847). Jane was intelligent, passionate and totally unconventional. The other characters in this novel are just as memorable. Who can forget Rochester - broody, moody, and somewhat sinister? The plot of the book is exciting and it carries the reader along with a sense of urgency. This is an enduring novel that I continue to love and enjoy.
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Summary: One of my absolute favorite books
Review: Jane Eyre was orphaned into the care of her cruel Aunt Reed as a baby. After years of being emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins she was finally allowed to go to school. However going to school didn't improve her standard of living much. Jane began to feel that there was something else out there for her so she took a job as governess at Thornfield Hall. Everything was going well until she fell in love with her employer, Mr. Rochester.Jane Eyre is one of my absolute favorite books. I just really love all the characters and the dramatic plot twists. A lot of people who read this book just think it's a romance novel. While it is true that Romance plays a large part, the book is much more than just your run of the mill romance. People who are able to get the 'just a romance novel' idea out of their heads will see that the book is more about a woman trying to find a better life against great odds.
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Summary: Plainly the best
Review: The title character of this novel is unusual, indeed, extremely rare - Marian Halcombe in The Woman in White is the only other such romantic literary heroine I can think of - in that she is not physically attractive. She has neither looks nor fortune. Most romantic heroines have the former but not the latter. It is Jane's character alone that the hero falls in love with. It is clear from the writing that Charlotte herself was unattractive and painfully aware of it. Strangely, the reading public have been unable to accept this, the very element of the book that makes it a perfect romance. The portrait of Charlotte that is most often reproduced is an idealized effort that makes her look beautiful. And whenever a screen adaptation is made of the book, the actress playing Jane is always beautiful. This reduces the theme to that of a rich man falling for a pretty servant girl. As always with classic literature, if you have only seen the movie, you emphatically do not know the book.
My first Bronte novel was Emily's Wuthering Heights, which I found very disappointing, with its heavy-breathing masochistic melodrama. But sister Charlotte is a writer of a very different caliber. From the first few pages, the reader knows they are in the hands of a great artist. The heartrending portrait of childhood with which the story opens is based on the author's own experiences, and it shows.
The book is not without flaws. The latter stages of the plot are carried along by a series of totally incredible coincidences and there is rather more Victorian melodrama than most modern readers would care for. But it remains, with its Plain-Jane heroine and its unlikely hero (in the end, he satisfies none of the conventional requirements of a romantic hero) the perfect romance. Never was the power of love more satisfyingly expressed.
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