Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Tara's Rating 5/5 Stars
Book Blurb
Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than Victorian society traditionally allowed.
With a heroine full of yearning, the dangerous secrets she encounters, and the choices she finally makes, Charlotte Bronte's innovative and enduring romantic novel continues to engage and provoke readers.
Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than Victorian society traditionally allowed.
With a heroine full of yearning, the dangerous secrets she encounters, and the choices she finally makes, Charlotte Bronte's innovative and enduring romantic novel continues to engage and provoke readers.
Warning: The review below may contain spoilers.
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Tara's Review
All time favorite! I return again and again to this book because for me it never gets old! I love Jane and Mr. Rochester. The romance is fabulous and the story has a HEA.
Jane falls madly in love with Mr. Rochester, but is forced to leave him because he is already married! Mr. Rochester's wife is crazy as a mad hatter and lives in his attic. Mr. Rochester just wants a woman he can love and call his own but he was deceived by his wife's family and was unaware of the insanity that ran in her family.
Miss Plain Jane comes along and sweeps Mr. Rochester heart away. He is forced to live without Jane after she finds out he is already married. He is distraught and severely injured but his wife's latest attempt to murder him. He closes himself away from family and friends and continues to pine for his lost love, Jane.
Jane is forced to start a new life after she leaves Mr. Rochester. She has no one, but she manages to come out on top. Jane can not leave the past where it belongs and eventually makes her way back to Mr. Rochester.
This story is filled with passion, heartache, and some of the best writing I have ever read. I strongly urge you to re-read this classic or if you are new to Bronte than I encourage you to read this classic novel!
“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
All time favorite! I return again and again to this book because for me it never gets old! I love Jane and Mr. Rochester. The romance is fabulous and the story has a HEA.
Jane falls madly in love with Mr. Rochester, but is forced to leave him because he is already married! Mr. Rochester's wife is crazy as a mad hatter and lives in his attic. Mr. Rochester just wants a woman he can love and call his own but he was deceived by his wife's family and was unaware of the insanity that ran in her family.
Miss Plain Jane comes along and sweeps Mr. Rochester heart away. He is forced to live without Jane after she finds out he is already married. He is distraught and severely injured but his wife's latest attempt to murder him. He closes himself away from family and friends and continues to pine for his lost love, Jane.
Jane is forced to start a new life after she leaves Mr. Rochester. She has no one, but she manages to come out on top. Jane can not leave the past where it belongs and eventually makes her way back to Mr. Rochester.
This story is filled with passion, heartache, and some of the best writing I have ever read. I strongly urge you to re-read this classic or if you are new to Bronte than I encourage you to read this classic novel!
“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre