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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Genre: Romance-Gothic horror-Bildungsroman (a character matures internally through encounters with the external)
Book Number/Goal: 3.5 / 12
From Sparknotes.com:
This was a difficult read for me, though not as difficult as it was when I was twelve (I didn't get it at all then). It's quite long and the combination of styles, though done well, is unusual (I'm a little biased here; I don't care for horror stories). It is, however, a "classic", and the themes that Bronte used and the ideas she challenged tell a lot about the society she lived in.
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Genre: Romance-Gothic horror-Bildungsroman (a character matures internally through encounters with the external)
Book Number/Goal: 3.5 / 12
From Sparknotes.com:
From its beginning, Jane Eyre explores and challenges the social preconceptions of nineteenth-century Victorian society. Themes of social class, gender relations, and injustice predominate throughout.
This was a difficult read for me, though not as difficult as it was when I was twelve (I didn't get it at all then). It's quite long and the combination of styles, though done well, is unusual (I'm a little biased here; I don't care for horror stories). It is, however, a "classic", and the themes that Bronte used and the ideas she challenged tell a lot about the society she lived in.