Charlotte and Emily Brontë: The Complete Novels by Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte and Emily Brontë: The Complete Novels Reviews

• 
  Belen (f.k.a. La Mala ✌)

  NOTA: Este tesoro precioso (precioso!!) me regaló my brother... para que olvide
  este episodio de nuestras vidas, supongo XD
• 
  Boadicea

  Gorgeous Gramercy Gothic Romance and Mystery
  
  These two girls wrote so well with minimal formal education but much creative imagination and an intellectual existence exceeding many higher class families with significantly greater resources both in financial and physical matters. Despite dying before their prime and leaving very few markers of their existence, they have left a legacy to English literature surpassing most male authors of their era.
  
  Individual novels are reviewed under their own titles.
• 
  Tanya

  I stuck to Wuthering Heights this time. I was due for a re-read of it, and I recalled absolutely loving it as a teen, reading it over and over. Such deep tragedy - and perhaps now that I've experienced so much of my own at this point, I found that it was more disturbing this time around than romantic, more sad than melancholy, more tragic than anything else. I think when I was younger, death was more of a concept than a reality, so the idea of the eternal after-death love of Catherine and Heathcliff was satisfactory, when now, after experiencing so much of my own personal loss, all that's left is the folly of losing all of that living time they could have been together over pride and jealousy and the expecataions of others. It wouldn't be the same story any other way, but this time it left me just feeling hopeless. Also, for some reason I did feel it was as skillfully written as I used to believe this time around. I used to be enraptured by the story within a story idea. Perhaps I've become used to that method of narative after so many David Lynch movies that it's no longer novel at all. Basically - it was best the first time and should be read as a teen, but I'll probably never read it again.
• 
  ✨Bean's Books✨

  In the dark shadow of Mary Shelley, here come The Bronte Sisters!
  Masterfully written tales of tragedy and work with touches of romance hither and thither. These tales are most definitely classics to be read and reread time and again throughout the generations.
  Though the 19-Century English makes the novels a bit difficult to read, they are not hard to follow. And though a foreboding shadow looks over most of their tales, a touch of femininity peeks in throughout. Their poetry holds the same bipolar allure.
  Amazing classics! Do I really need to say that I recommend these books? LOL
• 
  Celine DePoitiers

  Ho letto e riletto Cime Tempestose e Jane Eyre molte volte. Credo che non si possa dire di aver davvero apprezzato la letteratura classica senza aver letto qualcosa delle sorelle Bronte.
  
  Consigliato sia come lettura che come ri-lettura!!
• 
  Jen (Feffer)

  You know, I've read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, both of which are in this book, but none of the rest of Charlotte's works. One of these days I need to get around to that.
• 
  carys

  this is the wrong book but I need to log something bc I need to feel the dopamine rush of goodreads congratulating me on completing my 2020 challenge sorry nothing brings me joy anymore ?
• 
  Amanda

  This is a quite bulky book with wuthering heights, the tenent of wildfell hall shirely and jane eyre all in one book, Think the bulkyness of the book was off putting for me and so this review probably is more based on the length of time it has taken to read 561 pages an amazing 8-9 months before i closed it has a no hope, i lost total interest in reading any further, maybe i will pick it up at a later date, maybe better if i read each book seperatly instead of has one big collection,
  
  wuthering heights was quite a neat read
  Shirely being more religious christianity
  The tenent of wildfall hall being more descriptive on the countryside and buildings, more a love story
  never got to the end of shirely
  and jane eyre i never got to read
  
  off back to charles dickens and roald dahl
• 
  Laura Harden

  All the stories in this book were amazing! I loved Jane Eyre the most.
• 
  Robert Nagel

  Such a shame all of the Brontes died so young. We could have had many more classics like these from them.
• 
  Caitlin

  I've only read Jane Erye, and I LOVE it! It's such a great classic.
• 
  Laura Ansley

  I own this book - this edition, actually, and I have to say it's a wonderful thing to have on my shelf. It's lovely, and big!!
  
  Jane Eyre is one of my all-time-favorite books. I could pick it up and start reading anywhere.
  
  Villette was incredibly sad, but I really, really liked it. The story drew me in and I had to know how it would end.
  
  Wuthering Heights is just a strange, strange novel about pathetic, selfish, people. It's tragic how they ruined their lives because they were so self-absorbed. I read it because it's that book everyone is like, "ugh I hated that book!"
  
  I loved it. =P
• 
  Christy

  I bought this book because my daughter had to read Jane Eyre for school, and I decided I would read it along with her. I ended up purchasing this collection of all the works by Charlotte and Emily Bronte. My daughter found Jane Eyre very hard to read and hated the book when it was over. I enjoyed Jane Eyre and then went on to read Wuthering Heights. I did not enjoy Wuthering Heights as much. It just seems such a dark story.
  
  I'm currently reading Shirley, and so far have not been able to get into the story.
• 
  Felicia Latoya Brown

  I've read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and will be moving on to Shirley. It's been interesting to see the difference between the sisters' writing. Though both have written the "hero" as a very dark, mysterious, and somewhat cruel man, they have both also included the reasoning behind the actions of these men...what pushed them to this extreme. Anyway, this was definitely one of the good gifts I received from my sister. She decided to get me a book one year after seeing a bag I owned that said a good friend would buy me a book I've never read. :)
• 
  Karen

  All the Bronte books have always fascinated me. There is a new BBC version of the movie on PBS right now that puts Heathcliff in a whole new light. Maybe the way we've always pictured Heathcliff isn't who Emily really created.
  
  Merged review:
  
  A book shouldn't be judged by the pretty picture on the cover, right? Jane was always the perfect heroine to read about when I wanted to be a little spooked.
• 
  Jay Wright

  After reading Jane Austin, I despised 19th century England. They appeared motivated by greed and wealth. While you get this sub-current with the Bronte sisters, you get a real feel for England. The picture of the industrial revolution but with stories of classes of people not stuck in the r7uling class. The development of their characters is the true accomplishment Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are of course good, but I was also pleased with the lesser known works.
• 
  Anna

  So far I've read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. I love Jane Eyre She is one of my favorite characters in all of literature. This is one of my would-read-again books. Wuthering Heights was a little disturbing and not at all what I expected from vague references on TV, etc. I didn't like it very much although the writing was of course excellent. Too dark for my taste.
• 
  S. Sigerson

  Why are certain books readable over and over again? Why do we seem to see more in them each time? Learn things each time we didn't realize were there?
  
  The Brontes are in this class. It's a depth of insight, observation, feeling, ... about life, about people, the self, the world, the universe ... which, in a lifetime of reading, I've been fortunate to find in just a few authors.
• 
  Nick Black

  Yet another excellent value from this line purchased back in halcyon youth working in the Media Play book department. I've only read
  Wuthering Heights and
  Jane Eyre from this, so I'm not really in a position to rate it.
  
  Where's lonely Acton Bell in all of this, I ask?
• 
  Kimberlee

  I struggled with reading this story. It just seemed so dark and I didn't like how every relationship was a bad match. I kept hoping that something good would happen but it never really did happen. Don't know that I would read it again.
• 
  Alien Citizen

  6/25/2005
• 
  Bobbie

  I Just read Jane Eyre but I loved it. I will read it again....
• 
  Nicole

  I thought overall it was kind of boring. I'm not much of a chick pick kind of person. It had some good morals in it though.
• 
  Sara

  I've read several stories out of these books, and they are great. Jane Eyre was the greatest story that came out of these authors though!