Charlotte Brontë was a dutiful daughter of the Victorian age. Her best-known character, Jane Eyre, endures as a woman who transcends time and social order. How Charlotte released Jane into the world ...
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 ...
"Jane Eyre's" long journey to Broadway is a trek worthy of the musical's indomitable heroine herself. Just as Miss Eyre wandered the bleak countryside, so has the Paul Gordon-John Caird tuner traveled ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tomorrow marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Bronte, author of the much loved book “Jane Eyre.” Reimagining 'Jane Eyre' With Korean-American Author Patricia Park Tomorrow marks the ...
Some audiobooks you listen to when you don’t have time to sit down and read the physical book. And others you listen to even if you’ve read their corresponding hardcovers again and again, the voices ...
BRAINERD — “The Wife Upstairs” by Rachel Hawkins has been on my to-be-read list for a while. I didn’t know anything about the story but had gotten it from someone as a recommendation. While choosing ...