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Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
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Author: Charlotte Brontė, Michael Mason
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Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780142437209
ISBN: 0142437204
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 576
Publication Date: 2003-02-04
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Product Release Date: 2003-02-04
Studio: Penguin Classics
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780142437209
ISBN: 0142437204
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 576
Publication Date: 2003-02-04
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Product Release Date: 2003-02-04
Studio: Penguin Classics
Editorial Review of Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a richer life than that traditionally allowed women in Victorian society.
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Michael Mason
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Michael Mason
Customer Reviews of Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
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Review Summary: This is one of the great books for love, passion and characters.
Review: As I was in the middle of the book, I was so drawn to the characters I felt full. Later there was sadness for awhile. At the end I was full of joy. My feelings were "wow - what a wonderful journey." I loved the two main characters, Edward and Jane, their individual natures, their love for each other and how they pursued it. There were interesting and unexpected conversations and events. I enjoyed the way early in their relationship, Edward would pass Jane in the hallway, sometimes scowling and sometimes politely nodding, yet she was not offended because she knew his moods were unrelated to her. The St. John character was odd yet amazing. He loved a girl, but easily gave her up because he believed she wouldn't fit in with his missionary goals and service to God. Instead he asked someone else to marry him whom he did not love but she fit with his vocation. The novelist Thackeray wrote "St John is a failure I think but a good failure." Bronte describes St. John as being made of what heroes, conquerors and statesmen are made, but not marrying material. St. John was not a major character in the book, but I mention him as an example of the variety of interesting characters. An idea that continues to intrigue me is "fact is stranger than fiction." One reviewer of the book (back in the 1800s) thought one of the characters was too unbelievable and stated "such creations as Helen Burns are very beautiful but very untrue." Ms. Bronte responded saying that Helen Burns was a real person and that Ms. Bronte exaggerated nothing about Helen. Sexual language: none. Number of sex scenes: none. Setting: 1800s England. Published 1847. Genre: historical romance.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The most overrated book of all time
Review: I've never understood why everyone lavishes so much praise on this book. It is the most overrated book ever.
One of the most fundamental things a book has to do is hold the reader's interest, and in this aspect, Jane Eyre fails. To be fair, it is utterly gripping throughout the first ten chapters. After that, the quality of the book falls off sharply. The rapid pace becomes boring repition of having to go through thirty pages of nothing to get to a page or two where something actually happens, then another 30 pages of nothing.
It's kind of a shame really, for a book that started out as well as this one to crash and burn the way it does. But it happens, and what we are left with is a dreadfully boring book that continues to have praise heaped on it for reasons I will probably never fathom.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: I love this book
Review: I read "Jane Eyre" because I'd had for a long time some vague sense that I'd like Jane Eyre as a character. And I was entirely right. I don't think I've ever quite connected so well with a character before - and I've never before understood so clearly why people still read great literature - because it still resonates, like "Jane Eyre," over 150 years after it was written. The book begins slowly, and the plot hinges on coincidence, but that aside the book is well worth 450+ pages.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Even better than I remembered
Review: I first read this in high school (oh, gosh...25 years ago!). I remember liking it then, though at the time I think I preferred Emily's Wuthering Heights. But as another reviewer mentioned, classic books really should be re-read from time to time. In some ways I think they're wasted on the young! Now I find Wuthering Heights a good story, though a bit melodramatic. However, reading Jane Eyre again, in my forties, I realize what an unusual book it is. On the surface, it has many of the standard plot devices of Victorian novels: a mistreated orphan, a romantic setting, a brooding romantic interest. But Charlotte Bronte's deft touch lifts this above the ordinary. She uses Jane to cry out against all the injustice she saw in the world. She addresses religious hypocrisy, women's rights, and the mistreatment of children, among other things. And it's a very good read. I find I am staying up late at night because I want to read on, rather than go to bed.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Jane Eyre
Review: It was okay but a little dry reading. But the price you had was excellent. Going to college after all of these years I have to watch my pennies.
Review Summary: This is one of the great books for love, passion and characters.
Review: As I was in the middle of the book, I was so drawn to the characters I felt full. Later there was sadness for awhile. At the end I was full of joy. My feelings were "wow - what a wonderful journey." I loved the two main characters, Edward and Jane, their individual natures, their love for each other and how they pursued it. There were interesting and unexpected conversations and events. I enjoyed the way early in their relationship, Edward would pass Jane in the hallway, sometimes scowling and sometimes politely nodding, yet she was not offended because she knew his moods were unrelated to her. The St. John character was odd yet amazing. He loved a girl, but easily gave her up because he believed she wouldn't fit in with his missionary goals and service to God. Instead he asked someone else to marry him whom he did not love but she fit with his vocation. The novelist Thackeray wrote "St John is a failure I think but a good failure." Bronte describes St. John as being made of what heroes, conquerors and statesmen are made, but not marrying material. St. John was not a major character in the book, but I mention him as an example of the variety of interesting characters. An idea that continues to intrigue me is "fact is stranger than fiction." One reviewer of the book (back in the 1800s) thought one of the characters was too unbelievable and stated "such creations as Helen Burns are very beautiful but very untrue." Ms. Bronte responded saying that Helen Burns was a real person and that Ms. Bronte exaggerated nothing about Helen. Sexual language: none. Number of sex scenes: none. Setting: 1800s England. Published 1847. Genre: historical romance.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The most overrated book of all time
Review: I've never understood why everyone lavishes so much praise on this book. It is the most overrated book ever.
One of the most fundamental things a book has to do is hold the reader's interest, and in this aspect, Jane Eyre fails. To be fair, it is utterly gripping throughout the first ten chapters. After that, the quality of the book falls off sharply. The rapid pace becomes boring repition of having to go through thirty pages of nothing to get to a page or two where something actually happens, then another 30 pages of nothing.
It's kind of a shame really, for a book that started out as well as this one to crash and burn the way it does. But it happens, and what we are left with is a dreadfully boring book that continues to have praise heaped on it for reasons I will probably never fathom.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: I love this book
Review: I read "Jane Eyre" because I'd had for a long time some vague sense that I'd like Jane Eyre as a character. And I was entirely right. I don't think I've ever quite connected so well with a character before - and I've never before understood so clearly why people still read great literature - because it still resonates, like "Jane Eyre," over 150 years after it was written. The book begins slowly, and the plot hinges on coincidence, but that aside the book is well worth 450+ pages.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Even better than I remembered
Review: I first read this in high school (oh, gosh...25 years ago!). I remember liking it then, though at the time I think I preferred Emily's Wuthering Heights. But as another reviewer mentioned, classic books really should be re-read from time to time. In some ways I think they're wasted on the young! Now I find Wuthering Heights a good story, though a bit melodramatic. However, reading Jane Eyre again, in my forties, I realize what an unusual book it is. On the surface, it has many of the standard plot devices of Victorian novels: a mistreated orphan, a romantic setting, a brooding romantic interest. But Charlotte Bronte's deft touch lifts this above the ordinary. She uses Jane to cry out against all the injustice she saw in the world. She addresses religious hypocrisy, women's rights, and the mistreatment of children, among other things. And it's a very good read. I find I am staying up late at night because I want to read on, rather than go to bed.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Jane Eyre
Review: It was okay but a little dry reading. But the price you had was excellent. Going to college after all of these years I have to watch my pennies.