I feel like a mouth breathing booger picker giving this only 2 stars. Maybe it's bad timing (too much Bronte in too short a time), maybe it was high expectations (so many rave reviews) or maybe it really is just a personal lack of intelligence and sophistication (very likely). Long story short I di...
Another semi-autobiographical tale from Charlotte Bronte, based upon her time spent teaching in Belgium. This is not a novel of page turning excitement, but a lovely tale of one woman's battle to maintain her independence. It's very interesting how the author brings characters in and out of her tale...
If you read this book, be sure to get a translation where all the French has been translated as well (if nothing else then as foot- or endnotes) as the one I listened had long paragraphs in French. I know that at the time of writing all educated English-women spoke French as well so Charlotte wouldn...
"I seemed to hold two lives--the life of thought, and that ofreality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter."Lucy Snowe, the book's hero...
This book is so good and so often overlooked in favor of Jane Eyre. It's a masterpiece of atmosphere and characterization with acute psychological observations. A fascinating, and in some places completely surreal, book. I guess I don't reread it as often as Jane Eyre (I'm a sucker for Jane's moxie!...
My favourite of Charlotte Bronte’s (and I think most autobiographical) it is a quiet sad story set in Belgium. The writing style seems different, maybe more personal.
[These notes were made in 1982. I read this in an American edition from 1864:]. I begin, even after only reading two of her novels, to recognize a Charlotte Brontë persona. Defiantly introverted and emphatically plain, she is fearful of sex as represented by the traditionally ideal and handsome mal...
It’s hard to review a classic, so I’ll keep it brief. As others have related, this book is about a young Englishwoman who, following an undisclosed family tragedy, picks up and crosses the Channel to make her living as a teacher in the fictional city of Villette. As one would expect from a classic, ...
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