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Brontë Sisters Collection
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Group Read 03/01/16 - 04/11/16

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Bea
Dec 28, 2011 rated it liked it
Shelves: audiobooks, group-read, 2012-book-addicts-challenge, 1001-books-read, victorians-challenge-2012
A very odd book and not in the same league with Jane Eyre, in my opinion. This is reputedly the most autobiographical of Charlotte Brontës works and paradoxically one in which the heroine is held at a distance from the reader. Lucy Snowe is burdened by overwhelming sadness and isolation but leaves the reasons for her woes to the imagination of the reader. After awhile, I began to think that she was overdoing the self-pity. This feeling was exacerbated by the character's harsh judgement of other ...more
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Ellen
Jan 29, 2010 marked it as to-read
Shelves: 19thc-pd, classic, british-lit, gothic
Gretchen
May 06, 2010 marked it as to-read
Shelves: classics, romantic, brontes
Bob
May 24, 2010 marked it as to-read
Shelves: 1840-59, fiction-british
Lauri
Aug 17, 2010 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics-british
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Shelves: victorian
Rebecca
Dec 05, 2010 rated it it was ok
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Misha
Apr 14, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: literary-fiction
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May 14, 2012 marked it as to-read
Bookguide
May 15, 2012 rated it liked it
Shelves: 1001-book-list
Marina
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Jun 27, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: 1-kindle
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