Knickerbocker Classics: Jane Eyre (Series #5) (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 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 Library_Lin

I've resisted reading this book for years. After reading Wuthering Heights in my early 20s, I somehow got the idea that Jane Eyre was a pale version of the same book. I could not have been more wrong. I was expecting a sad story of a pale, put-upon nineteenth-century woman who was rescued by a ma...

from robfwalter

Oh, dear reader, how I agonised over whether to give this five stars or four. In the end, I have gone with all five, because I think the shortcomings in the novel are to do with the genre and the society in which it was published, and not with the quality of the book. Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester ...