The Brontë Sisters: The Complete Novels (Unabridged): Janey Eyre + Shirley + Villette + The Professor + Emma + Wuthering Heights + Agnes Grey + The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Y**M
This edition is full of errors
Love the books. But this edition (or at least the Anne Bronte books so far) are riddled with a ridiculous number of errors, making it difficult to read.
O**L
A long and varied journey.
I am now retired and am catching up on the classics I never read and revisiting some I did. This collection is in the former group. The Bronte sisters all wrote beautifully. That said, keep the dictionary ready for some challenging vocabulary. In all the novels the settings and characters are delightfully developed. You can love some, hate some, pity some, struggle to understand some and highly respect some. Treatments of the friction between Catholicism and Protestantism is explored in a couple of the novels. I appreciated the treatment because it dwelt on the results in the followers lives more than heavy theological investigation. It revealed goodness and character in characters from both groups as well as scoundrels in both. All in all a fascinating glimpse into a bygone era that was, as today, filled with people you would be proud to know and those you would not want to encounter.
N**Y
Not easy to navigate
I tried to read another of the books but had trouble navigating. I wanted to go to the end of the book and it wasn't easy to see where I was at and which book I was seeing. Never mind, my next question is how to take it out of my Kindle.
A**.
Kept Up Nights Reading These Over And Over! <3
Love it Love it LOVE IT!!! it’s a TREASURE on my phone. I don’t usually like ebooks. I prefer to hold an actual book. However, it is wonderful to have a few gems tucked away on your phone, so you’re never without a classic. I’m reading and rereading this; Villette, Shirley, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall definitely deserve more attention! I couldn’t sleep for reading them. I also put Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of C.B. on my Kindle app and am devouring it as well.
B**N
The Major Works not The Complete Novels
There could've been more effort to include some of the other long narrative projects from the Bronte Sisters, their juvenilia for example.
L**S
The Miracle of the Brontë Sisters
XIX Century England has its pack of exceptional writers. Women and men alike. But the extraordinarily Brontë Family is a chapter in its own. For the quality of their work is almost unsurpassable, specially when we are referring to Emily and Charlotte. A timeless work of art...
J**L
Slow
Slow repetitive read with too much opinionated religion. If I want religion I will read the Bible. All their works are the same endeavor.
M**G
Bought it for the stories, but the book was a surprise.
Really a nice quality, good looking book full of wonderful stories. Highly recommend to those who like slower paced, thought provoking reads. Would make an impressive gift for the reader in your life, it's that nice looking (which I didn't expect, just bought it for the stories).
A**R
Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Jane Eyre
I read all the novels but looking back I now think it was a waste of time. I think Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Jane Eyre are the only novels worth reading.In my opinion, Charlotte's novels are repetitive and extremely misogynistic. Jane Eyre is compelling and well written.Anne's novels are full of religious messages and, although I found The Tenant somewhat interesting in the way it approaches women's lifes in the nineteenth century, I felt like she struggled to combine the two narratives, opting for the easy solution of letter writing.As for Wuthering Heights, I think it's a masterpiece and I am sorry Emily didn't write more novels.
M**R
Hard to rate!
If they can't even get the book title correct, what hope for the actual book. The one star isn't only for content, but the word pages missing and money spelling mistakes.
D**S
Absolutely fantastic value on the kindle
Absolutely fantastic value on the kindle, I read them in bed whilst wearing my mothers tights. Because I am a cockney dancer, and I like to dance all night
G**N
I should have read their stories as a young girl
Some of the language can be hard to interpretation but I persevered and am still reading
S**Y
Sheer brilliance of course
Such genius I throughly enjoyed every novel and could read each one again it is such pleasure to read such well written stories we are very lucky to have the classics still available to us to read. Literature at its best produced by top class talented writers who I am sure will never be forgotten.
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