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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë,

Michael Mason (Editor)

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Orphaned as a child, Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in love. Hard.

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Paperback, Penguin Classics, 532 pages

Published February 4th 2003 by Penguin (first published October 16th 1847)

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Aug 29, 2017 Chui Hoi Yee Apphia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

故事的主角簡愛是個孤女，從小被寄養在蓋茨海德莊園舅母家，舅母和表兄都虐待她，簡愛十歲時更被丟進羅伍德孤兒院。簡愛看著最好的朋友海倫死於肺病，但她靠著堅強的意志完成了學業，離開孤兒院後，受聘於桑費爾德莊園。莊園的主人羅徹斯特是個性格陰鬱而又喜怒無常的人，他和簡初次見面是在簡出外寄信順便透透風的時候，剛好羅徹斯特騎馬回家，簡驚嚇到他的座騎，主人落地受傷。他們見面時，總是不斷地辯論，簡愛也不怕頂撞主人，坦白機靈地表白自己的想法。漸漸地，他們發現彼此個性的相似，而互生情愫。
里德太太臨終時派人來找簡，說她病危，要見簡一面。原來，當年欺負簡的表兄花光遺產自殺，里德太太傷心到中風。此時羅徹斯特早已離不開她，要求她快去快回。在里德太太嚥下最後一口氣之前，簡選擇了原諒。回到莊園後，羅徹斯特向她求婚，但是簡單的婚禮上卻有人不同意這樁婚事，原來羅徹斯特已經有合法妻子，是老羅徹斯特為了對方財產要兒子娶的。羅徹斯特太太瘋瘋癲顛，令丈夫極不幸福。
羅徹斯特坦白真相後，簡愛覺得自己沒辦法再待下去了。羅徹斯特希望兩人不要管法律問題，就這樣生活在一起，不要離開他。但是簡愛無法忍受不清不白的關係，連錢都沒帶就匆忙離開故事的主角簡愛是個孤女，從小被寄養在蓋茨海德莊園舅母家，舅母和表兄都虐待她，簡愛十歲時更被丟進羅伍德孤兒院。簡愛看著最好的朋友海倫死於肺病，但她靠著堅強的意志完成了學業，離開孤兒院後，受聘於桑費爾德莊園。莊園的主人羅徹斯特是個性格陰鬱而又喜怒無常的人，他和簡初次見面是在簡出外寄信順便透透風的時候，剛好羅徹斯特騎馬回家，簡驚嚇到他的座騎，主人落地受傷。他們見面時，總是不斷地辯論，簡愛也不怕頂撞主人，坦白機靈地表白自己的想法。漸漸地，他們發現彼此個性的相似，而互生情愫。
里德太太臨終時派人來找簡，說她病危，要見簡一面。原來，當年欺負簡的表兄花光遺產自殺，里德太太傷心到中風。此時羅徹斯特早已離不開她，要求她快去快回。在里德太太嚥下最後一口氣之前，簡選擇了原諒。回到莊園後，羅徹斯特向她求婚，但是簡單的婚禮上卻有人不同意這樁婚事，原來羅徹斯特已經有合法妻子，是老羅徹斯特為了對方財產要兒子娶的。羅徹斯特太太瘋瘋癲顛，令丈夫極不幸福。
羅徹斯特坦白真相後，簡愛覺得自己沒辦法再待下去了。羅徹斯特希望兩人不要管法律問題，就這樣生活在一起，不要離開他。但是簡愛無法忍受不清不白的關係，連錢都沒帶就匆忙離開桑費爾德莊園。她暈倒在牧師聖約翰家門前，被聖約翰和他的兩個妹妹救醒。並且幫助她找到教師的工作。這個電影版本，就是從簡愛邊哭邊逃離桑費爾得莊園倒敘開場。後來聖約翰向她求婚，但簡愛沒答應。簡聽到主人呼喚她的聲音，急忙回到桑費爾德莊園，整個莊園已是一片廢墟。羅徹斯特被燒瞎了雙眼。然而兩人卻因此終於重逢，不再分離。
我覺得這個故事很感人，令我想再多看一篇。簡愛是一個十分堅強的女孩，她的出身的背景，親人和經歷都十分可憐，但她遇到很多挫折都不會放棄，我十分欣賞她這一點。

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Aug 20, 2018 Yip,Athena Ching Sze rated it really liked it · review of another edition

這本書的女主角簡愛是一個很純真，堅強的女孩。她自小便受盡表兄弟姊妹的欺凌，最後迫於無奈要送進孤兒院，雖然她認識了朋友，但好景不常，她的朋友卻永遠離開了她。最後大認識了莊園主人，並和她相愛，我非常欣賞女主角她的性格。

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Dec 30, 2019 William Wong rated it really liked it

记忆中读过的第一本“大人读的小说”，内容已经记不真切了，但是每次在这种评书的网站还是会想从它开始。勃朗特姐妹是我西方小说的启蒙，那之后我曾经怀着读完燕山出版社的西方小说书系的愿望，买了很多书，后来，这种热情止步于雨果的悲惨世界和托尔斯泰的安娜卡列尼娜。那些冲动的告白、压抑的痛苦、纠结的尊严，曾经耳熟能详的片段，大半都已消逝，但是在混沌的脑海中，依然记得它的重要。

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Dec 16, 2014 yining rated it really liked it

Shelves: love-story

这本书给我的感觉就是要平等的爱。不顾一切地追求平等的爱。另外，不太喜作者特地强调女主平凡的外表，平凡的自身……

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May 10, 2016 VYVyvY rated it it was amazing

小时候读中译的没感受到rochester是个如此可爱的人，还为jane最后选了一个比她大二十岁长得丑陋又残疾的人不值，多年再读这篇才发现jane对他的境遇同情，但内心是开心的，觉得平凡但继承遗产的自己终于配的上残缺的他了，心里也是不客观的把rochester当成男神了呢

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Charlotte Brontë was a British novelist, the eldest out of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. See also Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë.

Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë (formerly "Patrick Brunty"), an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the fam Charlotte Brontë was a British novelist, the eldest out of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. See also Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë.

Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë (formerly "Patrick Brunty"), an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the family moved a few miles to Haworth, a remote town on the Yorkshire moors, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. This is where the Brontë children would spend most of their lives. Maria Branwell Brontë died from what was thought to be cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to the care of her spinster sister Elizabeth Branwell, who moved to Yorkshire to help the family.

In August 1824 Charlotte, along with her sisters Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, was sent to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire, a new school for the daughters of poor clergyman (which she would describe as Lowood School in Jane Eyre). The school was a horrific experience for the girls and conditions were appalling. They were regularly deprived of food, beaten by teachers and humiliated for the slightest error. The school was unheated and the pupils slept two to a bed for warmth. Seven pupils died in a typhus epidemic that swept the school and all four of the Brontë girls became very ill - Maria and Elizabeth dying of tuberculosis in 1825. Her experiences at the school deeply affected Brontë - her health never recovered and she immortalised the cruel and brutal treatment in her novel, Jane Eyre. Following the tragedy, their father withdrew his daughters from the school.

At home in Haworth Parsonage, Charlotte and the other surviving children — Branwell, Emily, and Anne — continued their ad-hoc education. In 1826 her father returned home with a box of toy soldiers for Branwell. They would prove the catalyst for the sisters' extraordinary creative development as they immediately set to creating lives and characters for the soldiers, inventing a world for them which the siblings called 'Angria'. The siblings became addicted to writing, creating stories, poetry and plays. Brontë later said that the reason for this burst of creativity was that:

'We were wholly dependent on ourselves and each other, on books and study, for the enjoyments and occupations of life. The highest stimulus, as well as the liveliest pleasure we had known from childhood upwards, lay in attempts at literary composition.'

After her father began to suffer from a lung disorder, Charlotte was again sent to school to complete her education at Roe Head school in Mirfield from 1831 to 1832, where she met her lifelong friends and correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. During this period (1833), she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf under the name of Wellesley. The school was extremely small with only ten pupils meaning the top floor was completely unused and believed to be supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young lady dressed in silk. This story fascinated Brontë and inspired the figure of Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre.

Brontë left the school after a few years, however she swiftly returned in 1835 to take up a position as a teacher, and used her wages to pay for Emily and Anne to be taught at the school. Teaching did not appeal to Brontë and in 1838 she left Roe Head to become a governess to the Sidgewick family -- partly from a sense of adventure and a desire to see the world, and partly from financial necessity.

Charlotte became pregnant soon after her wedding, but her health declined rapidly and, according to biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, she was attacked by "sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness." She died, with her unborn child, on 31 March 1855. ...more