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Jane Eyre
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  • Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • On Wednesday evenings twice a month she attended a meeting of her book circle, five other women who enjoyed discussing Benito Cereno, Flowers of Evil, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • I remember Great Expectations and Jane Eyre, both of which I was forced to abandon because they were too difficult.†   (source)
  • Muting Decapitation would be like reading only every other word of Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • I was trying to finish Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • And then, a few days later, when he had stood in social science class and accidentally read from his paper on Jane Eyre instead of the War of 1812—I had looked at him in a way he thought was nice.†   (source)
  • I had never loved a man before, physically, and I've read enough of both Jane Eyre and Brenda Starr to know every first love is potent.†   (source)
  • Ruth pretended to read Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • It's her favorite novel, Jane Eyre, and she wanted to own it, to have it in her possession.†   (source)
  • One hundred and sixty pages of Jane Eyre.†   (source)
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  • Jane Eyre, it was called.†   (source)
  • Everything of Jane Austen, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre, and all of Dickens and Shakespeare's plays except Coriolanus, because everyone kills everyone, but I know Midsummer Night's Dream almost by heart.†   (source)
  • This was the age of Jane Eyre, whom we all remember refused to accept Mr. Rochester's generous offer to make over her wardrobe, preferring merino wool to the silk organzas he ordered for her.†   (source)
  • A Study in Scarlet has only a few bent pages but Jane Eyre has a wretched tear in it.†   (source)
  • The novels of her girlhood that had stayed on in her imagination, besides those of Dickens and Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, were Jane Eyre, Trilby, The Woman in White, Green Mansions, King Solomon's Mines.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine Joe Pepitone buying tickets to Jane Eyre?†   (source)
  • I hurried over to make sure she hadn't hurt herself, but she said, "Jane Eyre!†   (source)
  • Will flipped his copy of Jane Eyre over in his lap, waiting.†   (source)
  • I headed to Mrs. Verne's class looking at the next few pages of Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • I never would have thought I'd like a book called Jane Eyre," I told Will, changing the subject.†   (source)
  • When Mr. Loeffler saw Jane Eyre, he said, "You poor kid."†   (source)
  • The periodic table and Jane Eyre and even the location of the Brown Pelican.†   (source)
  • You know how many words in Jane Eyre have more syllables than any word has a right to?†   (source)
  • I flipped through the pages of Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine anyone buying tickets to Jane Eyre?†   (source)
  • When Mrs. Daugherty saw Jane Eyre, she said, "Do you like to read?"†   (source)
  • I don't need any help with Jane Eyre because I'm not going to read it.†   (source)
  • "Jane Eyre is falling in love with Mr. Rochester," she said.†   (source)
  • "That," she said, "is a first edition of Jane Eyre."†   (source)
  • When I delivered Mrs. Mason's groceries, she saw that I had Jane Eyre stuck under my arm.†   (source)
  • "When all this is over," she said, "we're going to Broadway and see Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • I don't know if I want to read Jane Eyre out loud.†   (source)
  • I thought of Jane Eyre standing on her stool, everyone looking at her.†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre, staggering across the heath.†   (source)
  • But Vivian does..."Stealing Jane Eyre!"†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre?†   (source)
  • We'd just finished reading Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • She hasn't bothered to crack it yet, mainly because it seems like homework for a job that's already punishment, but also because she's rereading Jane Eyre for English class (ironically, the teacher, Mrs. Tate, handed out school-issued copies the week after Molly tried to pilfer it) and that book is huge.†   (source)
  • Like Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • We didn't talk about Jane Eyre anymore.†   (source)
  • Douglas, do you think that Jane Eyre should feel guilty for not being able to save Helen Burns from dying?†   (source)
  • When Jane Eyre came to look at my book —which happened to be Our Town—I handed it to her just right.†   (source)
  • I sounded out words from Jane Eyre—the paperback edition, not the first edition—all the way back into town.†   (source)
  • I put the first edition of Jane Eyre back on the shelf, and slid all three books in carefully because I guess it was all-fired important.†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre still hadn't figured out that she was in love with Mr. Rochester, and I mean, how many more clues do you need?†   (source)
  • "Remember," Mrs. Windermere said —people were starting to tie my hair up into a bun — "Jane Eyre will walk across the stage and address you.†   (source)
  • And of course, I did a few pages of Jane Eyre, who was settling in at Mr. Rochester's house even though he hadn't shown up yet.†   (source)
  • Mr. Powell was trying to get ahead on his cataloging so that Mrs. Merriam wouldn't fuss at him, and Lil was speeding ahead on Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • However, since it is you and not Coach Reed, perhaps we can put the time to some good use, as you seem to have given up on Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • And I know you think you know why I don't want to read Jane Eyre, but it's not really any of your business, is it?†   (source)
  • When the cast of Jane Eyre heard me shriek from offstage for the very first time, they all looked around to see who had done it, and then they started clapping.†   (source)
  • On Saturday mornings during deliveries, I'd practice picking out new words in Jane Eyre, sounding out the ones that needed sounding out—and I'm not lying, there were plenty.†   (source)
  • Miss Cowper in English, whose first words were "This fall, we will be reading Jane Eyre by Miss Charlotte Bronte, and I am not naive enough to believe that you will all like it."†   (source)
  • And then we opened up Jane Eyre and picked out words that pretty much looked impossible but we figured them out because of what we were learning about letters and their sounds working together.†   (source)
  • I flipped through Jane Eyre again.†   (source)
  • Miss Cowper still hadn't made us start stupid Jane Eyre, so we had all 160 pages to look forward to—not that it mattered, because I wasn't going to read it.†   (source)
  • A week later, while we were taking another try at the puffins—you can't believe how hard it is to make a puffin not look like a chump— I told Mr. Powell about Miss Cowper and Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • And Mr. Loeffler, who was reading Jane Eyre because he said I inspired him, liked to tell me that I should see the movie with Orson Welles sometime, and then he'd act out a scene or two and we'd start to laugh because Mr. Loeffler is no actor, and I'm not lying.†   (source)
  • And Miss Cowper—and you may think I'm lying here, but I'm not—Miss Cowper didn't look at me until the end of class, just before the bell was about to ring and Jane Eyre was about to leave Lowood Institution.†   (source)
  • 'Jane Eyre," he said again.†   (source)
  • But you might say that we were both more than a little happy, mostly because Mr. Gregory had called Jane Eyre a smash, and told us it was going to have a long run, and so Mrs. Windermere was flying high.†   (source)
  • "With Jane Eyre," he said.†   (source)
  • When the period was almost over and Miss Cowper said, "We'll have five more new readers tomorrow," like she was promising a gift or something, I figured I'd better talk to her—because, you remember, I wasn't going to read Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • I could hear Mrs. Windermere typing—probably Jane Eyre was falling in love with Mr. Rochester right there in her typewriter—and so I put away the groceries and took two cups down from the cupboard and poured the coffee and brought the cups into her study.†   (source)
  • I think Mr. Ferris told Miss Cowper, because in English on Wednesday, we all opened up Jane Eyre and Miss Cowper read her five minutes and then she called on Glenn Thomas, who was probably surprised but he didn't say anything and got right to it.†   (source)
  • Tuesday was a little better, even though that morning in English we finally started reading Jane Eyre, by Miss Charlotte Bronte, which we were likely to be reading for a whole long time, since it was 160 pages long even in the abridgment, as you might remember.†   (source)
  • Not bad for someone who at the beginning of the year could hardly ...well ... In English, when we got to Chapter 38 of Jane Eyre—which I had read twice already because of Miss Cowper's County Literacy Unit Miss Cowper turned to me and said, "Let's have Douglas finish the novel for us," and I looked at her, and I started to sweat, and I looked down at the page.†   (source)
  • When I told her that the only people who read Jane Eyre were people who had to because their English teachers made them read it and no one in their right mind was going to pay good money to sit in front of a stage and have all this acted out, she sipped her coffee and said, "Skinny Delivery Boy, I'm not even finished with it and people are already lining up to buy tickets."†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • But this is Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • 'Jane Eyre," he said.†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • It was about half the length of JANE EYRE.†   (source)
  • And I read how Jane Eyre used to go up on to the roof when Mrs Fairfax was making jellies and looked over the fields at the distant view.†   (source)
  • But how would all this be affected by the sex of the novelist, I wondered, looking at JANE EYRE and the others.†   (source)
  • But I doubt whether that was true of Charlotte Brontë, I said, opening JANE EYRE and laying it beside PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.†   (source)
  • Now, in the passages I have quoted from JANE EYRE, it is clear that anger was tampering with the integrity of Charlotte Brontë the novelist.†   (source)
  • But they were not granted; they were withheld; and we must accept the fact that all those good novels, VILLETTE, EMMA, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, MIDDLEMARCH, were written by women without more experience of life than could enter the house of a respectable clergyman; written too in the common sitting-room of that respectable house and by women so poor that they could not afford to buy more than a few quires of paper at a time upon which to write WUTHERING HEIGHTS or JANE EYRE.†   (source)
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