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But all through the book, Jane refuses to smile. That isn't to say that she's never happy (although you wouldn't be super chipper, either, if you were an orphan forced to go to an evil school where ...

Nine classic audiobooks — including Cynthia Erivo's narration of 'Persuasion' and Hilary Swank's reading of 'The Awakening' — are now available on the music streamer. By Natalie Jarvey Senior Digital ...

The first time I read Jane Eyre, I hated it. I was in sixth grade, and all I can remember thinking is, “Why does this character continuously mention how she’s not beautiful?” Years later, I decided to ...

ONE OF THE great thrills of reading is encountering a situation that is familiar in feeling yet alien in context. So it is on reaching chapter nine of “Jane Eyre”, in which the narrator, a ...

It was my mom's birthday the other day. She died 14 years ago of cancer. She would have been 74 years old. Every year I scan my bookshelves for her copy of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" written by ...

I was hooked by “Jane Steele” when I first heard the premise: a retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre,” with the heroine as a serial killer. Beyond that, I wasn’t sure how the book would actually ...

More than 150 years since the publication of "Jane Eyre" — and 200 years since the birth of its author, Charlotte Brontë — this gothic romance still enthralls us. Its most famous line serves as the ...

Let's say you've read every classic 19th century woman's novel, every canonical retelling of those novels, the more recent mashups (like "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies" and "Android Karenina"), and yet ...