A reader recommends.
Barbara Whitechurch in Middlesex, Vt., advises forgoing the usual beach-set summer novels in favor of Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre.”
The romantic climax of the book takes place in summer, in rural England, in the garden, in the evening. I cannot sit outside in the moonlight without remembering the magical encounter between Jane and Mr. Rochester. Brontë expertly brings her reader to the brink, and then masterfully twists the plot, to that reader’s extreme delight. (Note that I am imitating her style here, which — as must be the case! — has exerted a powerful influence over me.)
GoBookMart has included
Wide Sargasso Sea on a list of 'Books Told From The Villain’s Perspective', which may be taking things a bit too far.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
This book, now regarded as a modern classic, is a retelling of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre from the perspective of the ‘madwoman in the attic’. Jean also injects her Caribbean roots into the story, making Antoinette Cosway a wealthy Creole heiress who falls in love with a youthful Englishman. But soon, rumours of her madness force her into an attic where she is locked up while her husband finds another woman to love. (shashi shekhar)
New Statesman looks into how 'How “Dark Academia” became one of the pandemic’s fastest-growing internet trends'.
“Today I’m going to be giving an introduction and a guide to ‘Dark Academia’ as an aesthetic,” says Ruby Granger, a popular study and lifestyle YouTuber, introducing a video she uploaded in November 2020. She proceeds to showcase handwritten wax-sealed letters, perform candlelit readings of Oscar Wilde and drink tea to Tchaikovsky, while modelling collared shirts, tweed blazers and tartan skirts, and recommending Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and the 1989 film Dead Poets Society. (Glenn Armstrong)
Money (Italy) recommends reading
Wuthering Heights at least once in a lifetime.
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