Jane Eyre

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Summary: couldn't put it down
Review: i absolutely loved this book. i found it to be very powerful. you feel the pain that both jane and mr. rochester are going through, it tears your heart out.

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Summary: A WONDERFUL STORY
Review: All I can say is if you havnt already been swept up in the magic of this wonderful story do so right away! Jane is a heroin you could not help but love. You cry with her, you laugh with her and you feel her pain. Charlotte Bronte was truly a brilliant writer. Do yourself a favour and read this amazing book.

~Lydia.

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Summary: The Most Romantic Book Ever!!~
Review: I first read "Jane Eyre" when I was entering my sophomore year in high school. I was so fascinated by the beautiful language, expressing the love between Jane and Edward Rochester. I love Edward so much, because he is human. He is depressed with his life, and wishes for another. He searched for another, taking any and every risk he needs to...even adultery or bigamy. His love for Jane is deep and real, as is her love for him. This classic hasn't lost it's details, details about hope, love, and dreams, in the some 150 years since it's been published. I still enjoy it, even after reading it about 100 times!!~ I consider it the greatest love story ever written.....a story that defies the stuffy rules and regulations of 19th century England. It just shows that love can be more powerful than anything. With that, I give this story 5 stars....only wishing I could give it all the stars in the world. Why? Because it deserves that!

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Summary: Very Entertaining
Review: It's by far the most interesting classic I've come across, so interesting that I've read it around 11 times!!! extremely creative and finely detailed.

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Summary: Good Story
Review: This was a good novel with an unpredictable plot, but I found it incredibly slow moving in some parts (Jane's stays at Lowood and Thronfield that had little action). In other parts, I felt the story flashed by and I missed it (the ending where Jane went back to Rochester, Saint John's marriage proposal, Jane's botched wedding with Rochester). I do NOT think the woman in the attic (Bertha, Rochester's first wife) is a lunatic. I think her actions, although violent, are justified (ripping Jane's veil to shreds- She doesn't want her husband marrying another woman while she is locked in the attic). Though this review appears negative, I really did like the book. I, too, was assigned this as an AP English reading assignment (as JACKIE from Rotterdam, NY), and I am glad I was assigned it, for had I not been, I might not have ever read the timeless story of thencredible heroine, Jane Eyre.

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Summary: Really great!
Review: I'm in third grade and I do a lot of reading. I find this book amazing and well written. I can relate to Jane Eyre because when she was young in the book that's how I feel sometimes. Sad. But after reading this book I've been happier because theres hope.

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Summary: My favorite!!!!!
Review: A good friend of mine has long been a fan of the work of the Bronte sisters and encouraged me to read this. I was surprised at what a touching story it was! If you love the sensation of falling in love all over again, look no further than this novel. I could read it over and over again and never be tired of it! The strong-willed Jane Eyre is a role model for any woman.

When hunting for good reading, this is classical literature at its best. Read it, you won't be able to put it down.

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Summary: Full of gothic angst, this can be a frustrating read.
Review: JANE EYRE

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Penguin Books, 1996 (reprint edition). Genre: Classic Victorian literature; gothic romance and suspense. Age range: Middle school to adult.

It is sad that only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun. Clearly, the sun rarely shown at Haworth Grange, or anywhere near the wind-blown Yorkshire Dales--it might have reversed the unfortunate Brontës' madness. Page for page of gothic drama and angst, Jane Eyre can be a frustrating read. Jane's insecurity, low self-esteem, and then dramatic personality change near the end of the (very long) story hardly seem worth the agony for the dubious benefit of the love of Mr. Rochester. Those Brontës were all mad as hatters, and the unfortunate Mrs. Rochester wasn't the only one who should have been kept under lock and key. Be that as it may, the Brontës wrote classic British literature in the early Victorian Age, and therefore should be read, if only to see where gothic romance has come since then (not too far, unless you include "Rebecca," by Daphne DuMaurier, a far tighter story, with as much spinelessness in the heroine, but at a far faster pace), and to understand that women did not have much else to write about in those days--thank the gods for Jane Austen, I say. At least her heroines were role models well worthy of attention by impressionable female readers.

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Summary: Good story, but TOO many details
Review: I was assigned to read Jane Eyre for school, but I did not realize that it would take me forever to read! Although many disagree, I think that Jane goes into too much detail about every single thing that goes on in her life. We could understand the story and enjoy the themes of it without reading so many detailed descriptions of unimportant things! Overall, I would recommend this book to people, but I would suggest to skip the things that do not seem important.

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Summary: My favorite....
Review: I read this book over three times. During I reading this book, I was in another world. Charlotte Bronte is a very good "magier" to lay you down in another athmosphäre. (Sorry, I'm a german girl, my english is terrible...) Charlotte Bronte given me a lot of "rules" for my life, because i identifire Jane Eyre with my own kindhood. I see myself in Jane Eyre, but in another timelife. Jane Eyre or Charlotte Bronte has a special place in my heart. I read also "The Proffesor" and "Über die Liebe", in time I read "Shirley". The books of Charlotte Bronte are a kind of changre, that you are have to read!!!