The Story of Mankind (Paperback)

from brenzi

If you have avoided the classics thinking they were boring, unimportant, lifeless, uninteresting slogs that have nothing to say to you, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is a book that just may change your mind and encourage you to explore other 19th century novels, as well. It's got it all---mystery,...

from tuckerresearch

I read an old hardcover version of this when I was kid and enjoyed it immensely. The winner of the first Newberry medal and a wonderful recipient. (I bet it wouldn't get the award today, because it is all "great man," "dead white guy" stuff.) In the mid- 2000s I bought an updated paperback editi...

from ncgraham

I am a reluctant Jane Eyre convert. I was a callow teenager when I first read the novel. Brontë's style bewitched me, and I grew to love Jane herself, but the plot twist regarding Rochester's deep, dark secret turned me against both him and the narrative as a whole. I probably would not have rere...

from AbigailAdams26

It isn't every book that speaks to both the Wild Romantic and the Stern Puritan in me, and since the day I first read Jane Eyre - up in the woods of Michigan, the summer I was twelve - I have revisited it often, and always with pleasure. It is a book that speaks in many tongues, to many people, a...

from Summer_Missfictional

I don't normally review classics, but here goes.Here in the US, I'm fairly sure the works of the Bronte sisters are commonly dubbed as required reading alongside other classics, and for this reason are unjustly spared with naught but a single glance by young adult readers.After being recommended ...