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Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
by Charlotte Bront?

Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
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Author: Charlotte Bront?
Introduction: Erica Jong
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-07-01
ISBN: 0451526554
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Signet Classics

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Book Review: A good classic, but I've seen better
Summary: 4 Stars

---In Charlotte Bronte's classic JANE EYRE, the title character is a strong willed woman who undergoes many hardships and trials, but eventually comes out triumphant. This book is a mixed one for me. I appriciate the classic nature of this story, and I like the heroine, but there is just a self righteous tone to the entire book. ---- Jane Eyre was raised by her terrible and cruel aunt who cares not a wick for her. This was possibly her earliest hardship, yet she persevered the tough childhood years, and becomes even stronger when her aunt puts her in a terrible boarding school. Eventually, she takes a position as a nanny in the house of a rich man where she finds what it is to be loved.------ The problem I had with this story was the "love" between the rich man and Jane Eyre. I didn't feel that the Rochester and Jane loved one another at all, but rather had a need to have control over another person, and they provided one another with this powerful position. They both seemed very

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