Jane Eyre: Modern Illustrations, Modern Take

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	• The Illustrated Jane Eyre (Penguin Illustrated Classics) Charlotte Brontë Studio, 2006 - 560 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Jane Eyre: Modern Illustrations, Modern Take

This copy of Jane Eyre, "The Illustrated Jane Eyre", from Penguin Classics, is a truly lovely book to read, and look at. The illustrations by Dame Darcy, bring a modern, fearless, and unique look and feel to a very old story. I've read "Jane Eyre" three times, so it is one of my favorite novels. Of the copies I've read, the illustrations in this one really do the story justice: a modern, gifted, gutsy artist bringing new blood to the novel of a gifted, gutsy writer named Charlotte Bronte.

Perfectly gothic.

Jane Eyre is, of course, one of the greatest novels in the English language--dark, gothic, and haunting. It will stay with you long after you've finished reading it.

Dame Darcy's illustrations are gorgeously gothic, fitting the tone of the novel perfectly. I love this edition.

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Not for me but...

It was still well written and CB is good at keeping her readers interested in the characters and the plotting of the story. The ending was rather a bit too predictable for me and after investing two sleepless nights into this book, I was extreamly disappointed in the ending of this story. It is also a romance novel. I am not a great fan of romance novles without a complicated and intensely created plot so this element of the book did not appeal to me at all. I should've read this book as a young adult, as this is the audience the book is geared to. I would've enjoyed it more then. But if you are a fan of romance novels with many trials and tribulations of course thrown in, this is an elegant tale for you.
Now in assessing the art of this book. When I first looked through this book and read it I was not happy, though not disappointed in the artwork. After reading this book and looking at the artwork of other versions of this story, I was a little miffed. The artwork is mostly of Jane Eyre, and none of the artwork really captured her features and personality at all. This cast a darkned element over the book and almost "forced" a victorian viewpoint of this story. I think the artwork of other versions are much better by comparrison.

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Really good book

This is a very good book. If you read this I would also suggest watching the new masterpiece theater DVD of Jane Eyre.

easy read

I always thought that "Jane Eyre" would be a difficult read, but it isn't. Unlike Jane Austen books which have a lot of flourished writing, this book has more modern language.

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Charlotte Brontë?s sweeping Victorian romance is reborn through the striking illustrations of the inimitable Dame Darcy

A devoted readership will recognize Dame Darcy as the creator of highly original and off-kilter comic books. Here she uses her lavishly detailed illustrations to bring the best-loved Victorian novel Jane Eyre back into the spotlight. Darkly elegant illustrations draw back the novel?s curtain, revealing the depths of human depravity, despair, and ultimate redemption. Sure to impress traditional fans and newcomers alike, The Illustrated Jane Eyre updates the classic for a new era.

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