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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Start date: March 1, 2014

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Mar 16, 2012 Ginger rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Jane Eyre is my favorite classic. I first read it the summer before I started high school. It was on the summer required reading list.

I still remember so many days, stretched out on the couch in my new bedroom above the garage, reading this thick red volume checked out from the library.

I had been a reader for my whole life. The library is still my second home. But I think it was that summer -- I can still remember how the soft touch of that Victorian floral fabric that my mom had let me select t ...more

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May 30, 2020 Nina ( picturetalk321 ) rated it it was amazing

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Stellar.

The last time I read this was in the 1970s. This is the first audio novel I ever listened to properly. It is absolutely beautifully read by actress Thandie Newton. She does the accents. She does the voices: gruff, cold, loving, such a range. The voice of the narrator Jane Eyre is especially compelling, so much emotion, so much nuance. She made the book seem completely fresh; I could have listened to her forever.

The novel is stunning. There were so many bits I remembered only vaguely or ...more

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