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Book Review: Jane Eyre

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Jane Eyre  by Charlotte Brontë, 5 stars Read from December 16, 2014 to August 31, 2015 Ebook version (free) It turned out this masterpiece ends happily. However, it was a long journey, or flipping pages, because the happy-ending stories are in the last few pages of this book. It makes sense, right? For enduring such long time to taste happiness, from being a dutiful governess to the cancelled wife of her loved one, Mr. Rochester. But you know, to read this beautiful work from 1847 era, it is not painful at all. The language is idyllic, which I love. Each line gives you the details of the plot, setting, and characterization. You would find this orphan Jane is living her life miserably, while in fact, she is indeed an independent woman with beauty and ingenuity. As soon as I know she would govern Adele, Mr. Rochester's daughter from another mistress(?), I would know there would be romance thing in here. But then you would be served with all of these gory details after ...

Jane Eyre

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Time flies too fast I could barely grasp a sip of fresh air. I owe times a lot of times? Technically because I wasted it all being a sluggish fat ass. I almost have no time in continuing Jane Eyre.  I am usually hooked up with classic works the way Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility did to me. I read these masterpiece of Jane Austen only in a week. But Jane Eyre is different. I could hardly say I am hooked up by the way Charlotte Bronte tells the story. It's just too slow for me. But the language is somehow idyllic. Still, I could not abandon it. I am curious enough to see what would happen to Jane living in Thornfield with the love she carries for her master, Mr. Rochester. And since it is classic, so I could say the story shares similar things with previous works I mentioned above, which basically tells about the love between different classes. Mr. Rochester is a nobleman, while Jane is the governess for Adele Varens, the child from one of his mistress, Celine Var...