About this title: Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre leads a lonely life until she finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the mysterious Mr Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls by night.
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Norton, New York
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780393955897ISBN:0393955893
Description: Good. 8.3 in x 5.3 in x 1.0 in. Edge wear with some creases to cover and spine. No highlighting and minimal or any marks on text. read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780393955897ISBN:0393955893
Description: Near Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. An excellent paperback copy, unread and almost like new. There are no reading creases in the spine, and the cover shows almost no wear. The previous owner has written her name inside the front cover and doodled a quarter-inch square on the bottom of the text block, but the text itself is free of all marks, notes and underlining. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This is a Norton Critical ... read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780393955897ISBN:0393955893
Description: Good+ Front cover is lifting, light edgewear, front cover is lifting. read more
Edition: 2nd ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780393955897ISBN:0393955893
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. (A74_2/9)Book is in good condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 497 p. Norton Critical Editions. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780393955897ISBN:0393955893
Description: Acceptable. Former Library Book and/or book has writing/highlighting * If you can deal with the writing/markings, this is a great deal! * read more
Description: Acceptable. Some markings (underlining, etc. ) inside book. 2nd. ACCEPTABLE with noticeable wear to cover and pages. Binding intact. read more
"Now I know why Charlotte Bronte said this of Jane Austen: "The passions are perfectly unknown to her: she rejects even a speaking acquaintance with that stormy sisterhood". I love Jane, but Charlotte REALLY knows how to write about passion, romantic or otherwise. If Jane's books are stately minuets where the smallest gesture has its meaning, Charlotte's is a spirited, sweeping tango of duty and desire. A perfect blend of passionate romance, gothic mystery, romantic description of nature, social commentary and humor, all rendered in vivid, gorgeous prose. One cannot help to admire Jane Eyre, the little governess who could. She rises above her harsh upbringing to become a governess, poor but ever fiercely independent. Even the promise of love and comfort with the man that she worships is not enough to sway her from the path of integrity. One cannot help to admire Charlotte, who makes her intensely human; a woman of virtue, yet one who is not above jealousy and doubts, and who constantly struggles with the personal cost of her decisions. A deeply felt, and ultimately moving story of love and redemption that will linger long after the last page is turned."
"It seems silly to say that a book can affect you on a profound level. well I definitely believe in this power that a good book has. Jane Eyre is one of them. I cannot say that this was an easy book to read. But it was a book that I was very enriched by reading. Romance is a genre that is looked down on by many "sophisticated readers." Perhaps they would look down on Jane Eyre, but would probably get some eyebrows raised at them. Well Jane Eyre is the archetype for the romance novel. After having read thousands of them, I know a romance novel when I see it, and Jane Eyre does qualify. But it is much more than this. It's a story for the person who wonders why they keep trying to do the right thing, and persevering in life, instead of just taking what they want when they want it. If Jane Eyre had been that sort of person, she would not have gotten her happy ending. Instead, Jane walked away from the thing she wanted most in the world. She almost died doing what she felt in her heart was right. Had the story ended there, I probably would have detested this book. But it doesn't. We see Jane continue to grow and act as the phenomenal person that she was. Although often downtrodden, she is no meek mouse. She has a fighting spirit that keeps her going when others would have laid down and died. But despite being a fighter, she is not a user and abuser. It's hard at times for the difference to be clearly delineated. Well there is no question about Jane's level of strength and intregrity. Although it is made clear several times in this novel, that Jane is no beauty, her soul makes her a beautiful character. Beautiful in a more profound way.
There are moments when you feel, how can one person suffer so? But taking the journey, you realize that all Jane's suffering had a purpose. It refined her into a woman who could look beneath and love what others could never love or understand. It made her the woman who could love and heal Rochester.
At the same time, Rochester was made for Jane Eyre. He had searched his life for a woman like her, and made quite a few mistakes along the way. And out of love, he was able to let her go when he wanted to keep her. But she came back to him, when he needed her most.
Rochester is the hero that formed the archetype for many of my favorites: tortured, scarred, dark, enigmatic, all of those things. Best of all, loving little, plain, ordinary Jane with a fundamental intensity that pours out of the pages of this book into my heart as a reader. Despite his lack of perfection, I could not love him more.
Ah, how maudlin I sound. I can't help it. This book moved me to tears. Yet I smiled at the same time. I enjoyed the conversations between Rochester and Jane. There was a heat there, a passion. Yet this book is clean enough to read in Sunday school. That is grand romance. The journey so well expressed, that no sex scenes are needed. It's all there.
This novel is also inspirational. Not preachy, in my opinion, but for a believer, one can definitely find spiritual messages in this book. About perseverance, about not wearying about doing good. About the profoundness of God's love. It's all there, but in a narrative that expertly showcases it, not preaching it.
I feel I am failing to write the review I want to write for this book. The words do fail me. All I can say is that this book will always be a favorite of mine because of the way it touched my heart and challenged me."
"It is difficult for me to review this book as I am so entirely emotionally involved with it that anything I say shall be biased. It was the first grown-up book I read, and the one that made me realise how life could be with the help of one's own resources and a really great novel. Although I had read with a great appetite as a child, nothing prepared me for the sheer joy of Jane's plights as she enters a world which is so entirely indifferent to her. Despite being a much-loved child, I felt a sense of sisterhood in her loneliness and I clinged to her as I would a 'real' friend.
A few years after first having read the book (I had indeed read it more than once), I read Wuthering Heights, which became the anthem of my teenage years. Passionate, bold, selfish, violent in emotion - it summed me up, I felt. But recently, towards the end of my adolescence, I picked up Jane Eyre for the first time in many years and allowed myself to once more drift under the cover of Charlotte's writing, which felt as comfortable as childhood itself. And I realised that Jane Eyre is my literary home, the book I return to when I am tired and lonely. Of course I got more from the book this time around, understanding more about the relationship between Jane and Rochester, but I remember clearly reading it for the second time around when I was eleven, thinking how awful it must have been for Jane to sit there with little Adele, watching the beautiful ladies whilst she sat in her plain gown. I think that was the moral of the book for then, and in a way it still is. Patience is rewarded.
I am reading the book once more at the moment. It's like receiving an old friend into one's home, one who has, perhaps, been half-forgotten through the years, but still lingers at the back of one's mind and is evident in the way one acts - the way it has changed me I cannot put into words, but I hope my deeds show it to be for the better."
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