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- Oyinkan BraithwaiteInterview
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. I fell in love with Jane and with Mr Rochester. It is still my favourite book.
- The Best Classic Novels For BeginnersReading list
I was a bad English major, and so did not read Jane Eyre until I was in my thirties. I’m glad I waited so I could appreciate, with an adult’s eye, the sheer skill of the thing – its structure, its sense of voice, its rich, unexpected humour. The task of world-building in Jane Eyre seems effortless when, really, it is…
- Rachel ParrisInterview
I first read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë when I was 12 and I loved it straight away. I think I loved the high drama and the tortured romance, and as a pretty quiet, academic, plain young girl, I identified so much with Jane and her resilience, her quick wit and her strength. To see the strength of a woman in the…
- Brenda NovakInterview
I remember enjoying The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner in third grade, but the first book I remember truly, absolutely falling in love with was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë in the fourth grade.
- George MonbiotInterview
Middlemarch by George Eliot, Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy…
- Lucy AtkinsInterview
I’ve read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë more times than I’d like to admit. I just love it.
- Kayla Rae WhitakerInterview
I’m actually just finished Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. I missed reading it, somewhere along the way, which likely makes me a bad English major. It was a revelation. And a lot funnier than I expected it to be – Jane is incredibly deadpan. Particularly the section, early on, when the headmaster asks her how little…
- Margaret GellerInterview
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë inspires vivid memories. I remember being captivated by the coming of age of a person in such a foreign time and place. The characters and their tortured lives were startlingly real and were in marked contrast to my gentle childhood. Recently an exhibit about the Bronte family at the…
- Sarah MorganInterview
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë would definitely be on my reading list. From recent reading as well as those already mentioned, I’d recommend The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen, The Witness by Nora Roberts.
- Adam CroftInterview
The book they most want to read. It’s vital that children read because they want to read, not because someone’s told them to read. Forcing literary rubbish onto children in school is one of the reasons reading rates are so low. If they want to read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, they can. Forcing them to read things…
- Camille Di MaioInterview
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is my favorite classic. Sigh – that Mr. Rochester! And I like a good British tragedy.
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