Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is written by Charlotte Bronte, who is a famous female novelist in England during nineteen century. This is also the first famous book she wrote. The book was written in Sheffield, England which is also the hometown of Charlotte. A lot of people consider this book Charlotte's autobiography. That's not exactly true but we still can find many personal experiences of Charlotte's in that book. The entire book's theme shows the values that humans should always live with dignity and love. The book tells a story about a woman named Jane Eyre. Jane was born in a very poor churchman's family and her parents died of enterotyphus when she was very young. She had to live in her uncle's family. Her aunt was a very mean and snobbish woman. She used a lot of ways to abuse Jane and even taught her child to bully Jane. Jane lived there for ten years, but she never yielded to her aunt so her aunt just treated her worse and worse. After Jane's uncle died, her aunt sent her to an orphanage. Although the life in the orphanage was still hard, and children there could not get enough food and the teachers treat them very curly, Jane got her first friend in the orphanage, a girl named Helen. Helen gave Jane much comfort and support but this happiness for her did not last too long; Helen also died by enterotyphus. After that the orphanage improved. Jane studied there for six years and taught there for two more years. Then she left the orphanage and was hired by the steward of Thornfield Hall as a tutor. Thornfiled was a big manor owned by Edward Fairfax Rochester. The life in Thornfield was good and after a long time Mr. Rochester spent with Jane, he was deeply attracted by Jane's dignified character. Jane also fell in love with Mr. Rochester. Before their marriage, bad news come, Jane was told that Mr. Rochester was already married and his violently insane wife was locked in Thornfield Hall. Jane could not bear this shock and left Thronfiled manor. Her life truned harder after she left Thornfield. After a few months later, a clergyman named St. John took Jane in and gave her a job teaching at a local school. One day, Jane got a large amount of money as inheritance from her dead uncle, which her aunt had been keeping from her, Jane also learned from her aunt that St. John is her cousin. At this time St. John asks Jane to marry him and go to India to do missionary work. Jane refused him and realized she was still in love with Mr. Rochester so she decided to go back to him. When she came back to Thornfield Hall, it had already become a ruin. She was told that after she left, the insane woman set a fire in Thornfild Hall, and died during the fire. Mr. Rochester also was hurt during the fire. When Jane returned to him, he was not rich anymore and had become a poor disabled man. But Jane did not care about this at all; she found Mr. Rochester and married him. I strongly recommend Jane Eyre. This novel is very engaging. The plot of the novel is continuous and changes a lot. Every girl should read this book because it teaches you how to be an independent woman with dignity. There are so many characteristics of Jane's that are very valuable in today's society. When I first connected with Jane Eyre, I was a fairytale age girl. Strange thing was when my mother read the novel for me; I was fell in love with it very soon. The story was interesting and I was always curious about what's happen next. Little Jane's poor experiences and her brave impressed me deeply. Those contents really motivated me a strong sense of compassion which is really important for every child in their growth. I still remember when I knew that Jane was locked in a dark room by her aunt. I felt so worry about her and after her recovered form that disaster, I felt so happy for her. That's definitely a good lecture for me that how to share the same feeling with a friend. Little Jane also taught me that no matter how bad thing you experience, you should keep your heart pure and dignity, and always fight against unfair rules until you get the freedom. One more important thing I learned from the book is grasp every opportunity to study. Jane read a lot of book during she lived under her aunt abuse, she learned so much in the orphanage. The difference between Jane and others is she never gives up study or the process to enrich her inner world no matter how terrible the outside environment is. She successfully transfers her miserable live to her tenacious soul. All of these made her a thoughtful woman, and that also the reason for Mr. Rochester is attracted by Jane. The second time I read Jane Eyre was during my high school. At that period I was very depressed due to a heavy course load and a sharp competition. In an unexpected chance, I decided read Jane Eyre again. From I opened the book; I could not drop it any more. I finished it in three days. During I read the book, I felt so peaceful and calm. That's exactly what I needed for that period and I had lost this feeling for a long time. Beside my spiritual enjoyment, the book also gives me a strong influence on my value system. Until now, I still strongly believe that true love should build on the respect of each other. That's what Jane Eyre told me. This time I have a deeper understanding on the relationship between Jane Eyre and Edward Fairfax Rochester. At the beginning, Edward is a rich, strong and talented upper class man. But the real of him is a lonely heart, until he met Jane. A lot of women approach him in order of him money, but Jane is totally different. She did not care about him money or his social statue, she care about him just because she loves Edward and she really wants to comfort him from his painful experiences. Edward also loves Jane and appreciates her. He respects Jane and views her as his true friend in soul, he likes to talk with Jane and share his feeling with her. Their love is deep and stable. The ending of the story is not perfect but it's the best ending for Jane. She needn't choose from her love or her majesty. She obtains both of them. In the end, Edward became an old and poor blind man, but Jane still married with him. The only thing changed is they love each other deeper. This ending emphasizes Jane's characteristics as well as the substance of the book, which is the wroth of live should be respect and love. The negative part of Jane Eyre is the writer strength too much on Jane's insistence and independence. But in real world, things may much more complexes and cannot be overcome just by insistence and independence. However, I still believe Jane's characteristics will always shining in all times. Another negative echo for Jane Eyre is the book is not profundity enough. It only tells a story about a woman's life and her love experience, it did not tell enough about the time-background or the class contradiction. But I think that's just the reason that Jane Eyre do not bring too much heaviness to reader but the enjoyable feeling. All in all, I love the novel Jane Eyre. I believe everyone should read it; because it likes a cup of ice water, simple and clean, purify every reader's sprite.

I loved this book. The flowery language takes some getting used to for the modern ear but the book was excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed her feminism, her class commentary, her religious sensibilities, and her practical views on marriage (adjusted for the times). With the huge numbers of reviews done by those with far more literary finesse than I possess, swine should not attempt to cast pearls. Five stars for Miss Bronte.My purposes here are to comment on the following editions of this book:the Kindle Penguin Classics edition: Jane Eyre (ASIN: B002RI9XEC) andthe Audible Brilliance edition: Jane Eyre (ASIN: B001I7RRUK).I feel that both of these editions were very helpful to my understanding and enjoyment of this work. Due to the fact that these are the only editions of the book that I have read / listened, the following should not be regarded as a critical comparison to other editions but rather simply a favorable mention of the strengths of these particular editions. For me the Penguin Classics edition is very helpful because of two features. 1) The volume is extensively footnoted. These footnotes are useful to the literary inept (such as myself) to explain the various literary, classical, and Biblical references and common terms of the time and setting (mid 19the century Northern England) that have since become anachronisms. These can be as simple as describing an Amazon hat to extensive passages out of the Bible. Also included are references to Bronte’s other works giving the reader a better grasp of Bronte’s thinking. For example:“All John Reed’s violent tyrannies, all his sisters’ proud indifference, all his mother’s aversion, all the servants’ partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well. Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned? Why could I never please?7 Why was it useless to try to win anyone’s favour? Eliza, who was headstrong and selfish, was respected.”Brontë, Charlotte (2006-06-29). Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) (pp. 6-7). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.And the corresponding footnote:“7 . Why could I never please: This theme is presaged by Charlotte Brontë’s thinly veiled confessional account in a Brussels essay of 17 October 1843, entitled ‘Letter From a Poor Painter to a Great Lord’: ‘Throughout my early youth the difference that existed between myself and most of the people around me was, for me, an embarrassing enigma … I believed myself inferior to everyone, and it grieved me’ (Belgian Essays, p. 362).”Brontë, Charlotte (2006-06-29). Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) . Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.A Kindle (or other electronic reader) has a decided advantage for such extensive footnoting in that it only requires a click (or screen tap) to go back and forth between text and footnotes. Such footnoting would be extremely laborious in a printed version.The second feature is a very good Introduction which explains the novel in context to the time and why it was important. Alas this Introduction has spoilers for the book. As such a first time reader should leave the Introduction for the end of the book. If one has read it before and remembers the story, the Introduction may very well be helpful to read in advance of the book.My only complaint with this edition is minor. For the second generation Kindle and Kindle for Mac, there are no chapter listings in the table of contents. The entire novel appears under one line. This is not true on the second generation PaperWhite or Kindle-Fire HDX, all of the chapters are listed even though the same Kindle file was used on all of the devices. On those devices that do not support the chapter listings, the problem can easily be solved by searching "chapter."In conjunction to reading the Penguin Classic Kindle edition of this novel, I also listened to the Audible edition Jane Eyre [Brilliance Edition] narrated by Susan Ericksen (ASIN: B001I7RRUK). I am a neophyte to Audible so take my comments with a grain of salt. This edition uses Amazon’s Whispersync (as do some of the other Audible versions) to allow synching your progress with other Kindle devices to the Kindle edition discussed above. It also allows “immersion reading” on devices that support it. Ms. Ericksen does an excellent job of narrating this book. She uses different voices for the various characters which delineates each character in the narration very well. She also employs what I considered to be a proper amount of theatrical embellishment where required. I did not find myself gritting my teeth due to an overly theatrical production, but rather a very enjoyable use of her excellent voice to establish the proper emotions being conveyed. One gets the feeling that it is indeed Jane Eyre, not reading a book, but telling you a story.I found that I thoroughly enjoyed the process of “immersion reading.” After downloading both files into my Kindle-Fire HDX, I was able to open the Kindle version of the book and play the Audible version simultaneously. The line being spoken is highlighted on the Kindle screen. Pages turns occur automatically. With the extensive footnoting, if a footnote was tapped, the narration automatically stopped. It had to be manually restarted (requiring two screen taps) upon returning back to the text. The only complaints I have with the immersion style reading is that it runs just a bit too fast for me at the normal speed, and for some reason a page change often butchers the first syllable of the first word spoken on the following page. It appears that the page flip interferes with the narration. The narration speed can be slowed down, but with the 25% steps that the Kindle-Fire offers, at 75%, it is painfully slow and the narrator begins to sound a bit drunk. I would like a user inputted variable setting or at least more steps. I think 90 to 95% would work well for me.There were some minor differences between the narrated text and the Kindle text, but these were infrequent (bearing in mind that I did not employ immersion reading for the entire book which is the only time that one would notice these differences). Usually these were single words or short phrases that appeared in the text but not in the narration. They caused no synching difficulties.All in all, I believe that the Audible version was critical in helping me get through the unfamiliar literary language of the book. Five stars to both of these versions of this great book. When you consider that I spent 99 cents for each version (you have to buy the Kindle version first to get the Audible version for 99 cents), I believe I got one hell of a book reading bargain.

As a 68-year-old retired English teacher, I had never read Jane Eyre. I had seen at least portions of various movies adapted from Charlotte Bronte’s novel, so I knew the general plot. I had downloaded it to my Kindle, planning to read it at some point. Then when one of the Kindle reading challenges listed it as a selection, I chose to finally read. All in all, I enjoyed the reading. Jane herself is a wholly unique character, both outspoken and strong. Although she endures many hardships, she is the kind of person who perseveres and becomes stronger in the process. There were times I became somewhat bogged down in the somewhat tedious discussions between characters, but I reminded myself that the novel was published in England roughly 150 years ago. It is my belief that it has withstood the test of time.

Classic good one to reread probably not since high school. Love loss tragic and happy through the whole story. Heroic

This book is needless to say a good book for everyone who is interested in English literature.It was delivered very fast and in a good condition.

世界文学全書の一つです。これは映画化されていて映画は見ました。しかし、どんな文で書いてあるのかが興味の的です。

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Meu primeiro livro da autora, confesso que custei a ler, levei meses, mas acho que é defeito meu.O livro perpassa por toda a trajetória de Jane e, com ela, caminhamos por suas memórias. Acompanhamos seu crescimento, não apenas físico, mas como molda-se sua personalidade, alma e comportamento.Cativante. Muitos momentos chatos, não nego, mas a partir da metade do livro em diante eles ficam quase inexistentes e o ritmo da história fica MUITO mais saboroso.Não vi nada a respeito da autora ou do livro antes, porque gosto de ler sem nenhum pré-conceito concebido e poder moldar minhas próprias ideias. Portanto não sei se é algo já familiar, mas mesmo com o espírito livre de Jane Eyre, o livro destaca firmemente valores cristãos (reflexo da época e, provavelmente, da autora), reforçando a necessidade de fazer o bem e ser valoroso. Mas não é um ponto que me incomoda.A escrita é linda e poética, sem ser maçante (na maioria das vezes) e é um deleite mergulhar nesse mundo. Recomendo a leitura para almas românticas e poetas.

Arrived in good time - as described. Haven't finished listening to it yet so not sure how abridged it is. I am a happy customer.