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Jane Eyre (Barnes & Noble Classics)
 

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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Liked It

4 of 5 members found this review helpful.
Ian
  • Rated 5 stars

“All other novels should be measured by this one. I, perhaps, have been as spellbound by other novels from time to time, but none of them left me as both lastingly charmed and fully satisfied. Jane Eyre writes some of the most original and captivating dialog I have ever read. I laughed outloud a good dozen times because of Bronte's beyond brilliant turns of phrase. She balances this profound mastery of dialog and character with poetic grace in her descriptions of 19th century English life. I...”

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Didn’t Like It

Deborah C
  • Rated 2 stars

“OK. So I know I'm supposed to like LITERATURE, but I just wanted Jane to GET UP THERE AND FIND OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON. Charlotte Bronte is MASTERFUL (I prefer Villette), but this governess is too grey for me.”

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Community:
  • Rated 4.253056 stars
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  • Rated 4.505172 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Dana N

    dana n said:

    “I just joined and saw this book come up! This is my favorite book of all time. I have read it so many times. When I get depressed I read about Jane's life as a little girl and all that she went through. The thing that keeps me spellbound by this book is the attitude of the narrator throughout the story. There is a goodness in this story and the main character that is truly beautiful.”

    posted Saturday, September 13 2008
  • Simon m

    simon m said:

    “Genius! Remember the conditions under which Bronte wrote; the very necessary use of a male nom-de-plume, and the fact that she was so far removed from the centre of literary life. This is an incredibly feminist novel - Jane marries Rochester on her own terms, and it is clear that the relationship is not based on property (as in Austen, for example). This novel is a prose response to the male-dominated Romantic movement. ”

    posted Tuesday, September 2 2008 ( | view 2 replies )
  • Molly B (unsinkable girl) joyful mood ,happy, smile on my face Funny Team : Possibly be gone Thursday November 20th-December 1

    molly b (unsinkable girl) joyful mood ,happy, smile on my face funny team : possibly be gone thursday november 20th-december 1 said:

    “Is this book read for school? Should I read it any way I read classics.”

    posted Thursday, August 28 2008 ( | view 2 replies )
  • Ian S

    ian s said:

    “I HATE Jane Eyre. The first 10 chapters give you useless, boring background information which fails to foreshadow anything at all, and the rest of the book is a series of unbelievable, Dickens-esque coincidences. Unlike Dickens, however, the plot, fantastic though it is, fails to produce any memorable characters or even keep a reader interested. The end, though, was even worse; it seemed as though Bronte ran out of ideas and rushed headlong into an unsatisfying "happily-ever-after" culmination that was completely at odds with the Gothic themes. Furthermore, the Christian undertones of this book are predictable, unnecessary, contadicting, and most of all, annoying. Jane is certainly very moral whenever it suits her.”

    posted Thursday, August 28 2008
  • Barbara B

    barbara b said:

    “I heard a lot about this book, and I think it's one of the best books I have ever read. Most of all, I believe, I loved her strong personality, her capacity of survive every obstacle she had to go through in her life.”

    posted Friday, July 11 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
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