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| Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Charlotte Bronte
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 2435
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0140620117
EAN: 9780140620115
ASIN: 0140620117
Publication Date: January 25, 2007
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 A fantastic novel January 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Jane Eyre" is a story about a young orphan girl, Jane Eyre. After the death of her parents, Jane lives in the house of her aunt where she experiences a lot of maltreatment and is hated by her relatives. At the age of 10 she is sent to a boarding school for young girls where she is taught to become a teacher. She leaves the school at the age of eighteen and becomes a governess at Thornfield, the home of very rich people. There she and the Master, Mr Rochester, fall in love with each other, but Mr Rochester has a dark secret.
Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" is one of the most famous English novels of Victorian society and shows many aspects of the typical life of women of the middle class in those days. Nevertheless, the character Jane Eyre breaks from the stereotypical description of women in Victorian literature by changing from an unwanted orphan into an independent woman who marries the man of her own choice. I enjoyed reading the story very much, mainly because of the brilliant descriptions of the characters and because it is a wonderful, happily ending love story.
Passionately antisocial! November 27, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? - You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and as much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: - it is my spirit that addresses your spirit...
If anyone ever needs to test the passion potential of a would be lover, then read them this speech of Jane Eyre to Edward Rochester. If they remain luke-warm dump them!
For like Cathy's famous exclamation 'I am Heathcliff!' in Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte's lonely heroine articulates her profound love for Rochester in one of the most compelling declarations of love ever written. Jane is courageously and unnervingly direct throughout this remarkably intense novel. . She is 'antisocial' in her daring transcendence of her sex., and it is the very 'anti-sociality' of her address that vindicates her speech as being utterly self-presencing and authentic. Angry-Jane? Damn right she is!
Never listened to as a child and being accustomed only to truly 'read as if for life', Jane speaks as only a lonely person could .And in her solitary quest for truth, she finds her spirit's reward; she is longer 'buried with inferior minds'; or 'trampled upon'. She speaks and is heard in her entirety- she masters her 'masters' soul!
 All time classic September 23, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Read the chinese translated version of it back in china when I was 14, was deeply moved at the time, and Jane was such a strong woman...however when I re-read it in the English version last summer, didn't came as such a strong feeling...dunno if it's me grew older for the story or the language barrier?? But it is still one of my favourite classics.
I enjoyed this so much more the second time around March 24, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's always good to take time to reread those required books from school once you've obtained some years and maturity. This is a lovely and somewhat autobiographical tale of Jane Eyre, orphaned and raised by self-centered and uncaring relatives until they send her off to school. Eventually she is hired as a governess to a young girl and meets the girl's guardian Mr. Rochester, and of course they fall in love and plan to marry. But, there is a mystery about the house that once it is discovered destroys the wedding plans.
A lovely tale, and Bronte has such a wonderful prose that makes you want to slow down and savor it and the story like a fine red wine or chocolate. The version I read is a set with selected works of all the Bronte sisters, so I did not have the distraction of the foot notes to refer to, and I don't feel that I missed much without them.
Highly highly recommended, one that should be taken off the shelf and reread every couple of years or so.
 Interesting Plot not many juicy bits July 14, 2006
5 out of 39 found this review helpful
Jane Eyre started out as a great novel full of moving situations,strong characters that you can form opinions of and easy to understand language. It had the format of a really good classic novel. However, towards the end of the novel I was left thinking this could have been done with a lot more life and soul. Bronte it seems perhaps got a little bored of her work and it was as though the end was rushed. I would have preferred to see more about her relationship with Rochester and his 'wife' rather than the bits where she meets up with her cousins.
It lacks oomph for want of a better word. Jane's character was quite bland and although I liked her I could have said 'wake up and smell the coffee, Jane' on several occasions. Particularly the fact that she didn't push the issue with the mad woman living in the attic or told her aunt to get lost when she called her back whilst on her death bed after years of abuse as a child. Ok so Im being a bit blase about her situation but she lacked passion and she definitely was no classic heroine.
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