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I've always felt like I should read more "classics" but I've always found some excuse not to read them. So, I decided this year I'd read some. Plus, it'll help me check off more of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
I really liked this book a lot. Bronte tells a wonderful story. I particularly like the way the author has Jane acknowledge us, the readers, as she narrates the tale. I will definitely be picking up some other classics over the next year and I'll probably be adding Jane Eyre ...more
I really liked this book a lot. Bronte tells a wonderful story. I particularly like the way the author has Jane acknowledge us, the readers, as she narrates the tale. I will definitely be picking up some other classics over the next year and I'll probably be adding Jane Eyre ...more
Read it (loved it) in HS, Read again as I approach my 50th year and all I can say is... The writing is gorgeous. But Jane Eyre herself as a charactor was so meek and self-effacing. I keep hearing her calling ROchester "Her Master" and "Sir". It just felt rather mroe 50 shades of Grey than I expected. I'm reading Middlemarch at the same time, and I can see the beginnnings of feminist agitation there clearly, and oerhaps Jane Eyre in her subservience is also an agitator, in terms of "is this what
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Sep 19, 2007
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
rated it
it was amazing
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read-adult-fiction,
read-classics
First of all, I never knew that the subtitle of the book was "An Autobiography". I thought that the story was Jane's romance with Rochester, and that's all. However, it begins with her childhood, and is really the story of a girl's mental and emotional growth and development, about how she finds her place in the world. I enjoyed it very much!
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Dec 09, 2010
Mackenzie
marked it as classics
Oct 05, 2011
Jaci McCon
rated it
it was amazing
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Dec 26, 2016
lanie
marked it as to-read
