Jane Eyre The Graphic Novel: Original Text: The Graphic Novel

by Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre is a plain, determined and intelligent child. Orphaned and poor, she is adopted by her Aunt and Uncle Reed. The death of Uncle Reed allows her unpleasant aunt to send her away to a grim charity school, where she continues her harsh upbringing, but is given the education that finally frees her. Once old enough, she becomes a teacher and takes the role of governess in a large manor house, where she falls in love with her employer. But Rochester is hiding a secret that, when revealed, forces Jane to choose between following her head and her heart. Both critically acclaimed and immensely popular, Jane Eyre dealt with concepts of class discrimination, morality, equality for women, and freedom of choice. Designed to encourage readers to enjoy classical literature, Jane Eyre The Graphic Novel stays true to Bronte's original vision. The book includes 125 pages of story artwork (by the legendary comic book artist, John M. Burns) and fascinating support material detailing the life of Charlotte Bronte.

• ISBN10: 1906332479
• ISBN13: 9781906332471
• Publish Date: 14 April 2009 (first published 16 October 1847)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Classical Comics
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 144
• Language: English

Reviews

[pamela]

Rochester abuses mentally ill wife. Jane complains a lot.

[wyvernfriend]

This was an interesting read. As a teenager I read this several times but what I didn't know at the time, I was reading a condensed version of the story. I also had some trepidation about re-reading the story as I have re-read some other teenage favourites and wondered why I liked them in the first place.

But this was interesting, the love story of a young governess is well known, the problems she has in finding love are involved an interesting. I really did enjoy the insight it gave me into the life of the period and the role of a governess of the time. Of course it's helped by the fact that I read a few books about the background in the last few years.

Jane does grow through the story, and develops as an interesting character through her trials and tribulations. As do several of the other characters in the story.

I enjoyed the experience of re-visiting my teenage years but with the longer and more involved story, I enjoyed reading some of the undercurrents that were excised in the earlier edition that I possibly wouldn't have really "got".