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Denise Cormaney
Oct 19, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
“‘I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.’”

I’ve been wanting to read more classics, and lately, I’ve needed books to help me escape to a completely different time and place. (I'm writing this in 2018. You understand, no?) I thought it might be a slog to read a 500+ page book written in 1847. I had no idea this is a total page-turner about at 19th century feminist. Jane Eyre is a badass and my new literary hero!

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Christina
I get it now. All the praise. All the fuss. I get why Jane Eyre appears to be the classic of all classics for many. I went into my first ever reading of this book with low-to-moderate expectations. I don't particularly care for the Victorian era and it's sensibilities (particularly regarding romance), though I most certainly love all things England, so that was at least something.

It took me about a 1/6 of the book to really get into it, but once it got me it didn't let go. Jane is a fantastical
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Anna
May 01, 2009 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
I re-read this one every couple of years. It is the beginning of chic-lit, and really has some burgeoning feminism in it... I love it.
Kate
May 15, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: ebook, fiction, classics, 2014
Yay, I finished! There is so much more to this story than any of the adaptations I've seen includes. I really love Brontë's writing, that lush, dense style. How funny that Jean Rhys, with her insistence on economy and single-syllable words, would have tackled the wife's story (Wide Sargasso Sea, one of my favorite books) - but maybe that contrast is the perfect reason. ...more
Robin
Nov 19, 2008 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: the-1001-list
Linda
Feb 24, 2009 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Lisa
Mar 24, 2009 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Jess
Apr 30, 2009 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Lauren
Nov 10, 2009 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Christine
Mar 25, 2010 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Cassandra
Jun 08, 2010 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Jessica
Oct 20, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Nicole
Jan 08, 2020 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Monique
May 11, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Morag Smith
May 18, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Amanda
Dec 06, 2022 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Adjrun
Feb 04, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Maegan
Feb 22, 2014 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Paloma
Mar 31, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: book-club
Deanna M
Dec 04, 2021 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Carrie
Nov 07, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition