Jane Eyre

Pros: The magnificent characterizations, the flowing 19th century prose, the gentle wit, and the prescient philosophy.
Cons: Can a classic of western literature have cons?

Jane Eyre is a remarkable work of literature. The first, and possibly the greatest reason for its success lies in the singular nature of its authoress. Charlotte Brontë, daughter of a dour minister, resided for most of her life in the ...

Pros: Engaging, engrossing story, strong and intelligent female character. A classic.
Cons: Writing style may be challenging to some readers, but most should be able to get around it.

Like many others, I read Jane Eyre in high school.
It immediately became my favorite book... I carried a copy with me at all times and reread it repeatedly.

I suppose what took me at the time, being a teenaged girl, was the romance...

Pros: the wording in classics are sometimes hard for people to understand
Cons: beautiful romance, very suspenseful, vivid descriptions of characters and surroundings

I am 20 years old and it was only a couple years back that I found Jane Eyre. I have found there are very few people my age who have read classics like this one. In my opinion, I feel this novel has set the mood for many romance novels written today....

Pros: It's easy to follow.
Cons: A few sentences here and there are in french, but it's nothing big.

Jane Eyre is a classic story. Jane falls in love is betrayed and all of that great stuff. Yet it's still so much different than that. Charlotte Bronte, the author, takes the story through many twists and turns. Jane is trying to figure out who she is...

Pros: dense, beautiful, and engaging
Cons: dense, beautiful and engaging-- will keep you from your work!

God forbid this novel ever be removed from the annals of classic adolescent literature. The centerpiece of Charlotte Bronte's writing career, Jane Eyre is the novel that, decades and decades later, spawned discourse on psychoanalytic imagery,...