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(More customer reviews)This is a novel inspired by the original- but a story all its own and written from Rochesters perspective. Any reader of Jane Eyre knows Rochester was portrayed as a man with a debauched past and his passionate nature is evident throughout. This re-telling takes the blueprint of Rochester from the original and fills the man in, body and soul. Rochester is both naughty and very sexual- those seeds too were in the original and they are represented here in spades. The Jane we encounter in this retelling is his true equal and this is largest departure from the original characterization. This is the JE I have read between the lines since I was a teenager- I loved reading a version of the story from Rochesters point of view.
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\'After years of self-centered wandering, shielding my shattered spirit from further vain expectation, I now knew what it was to be loved." Yet\'.\'A cursed, damaged, aging wretch as I had no right to one so innocent, lovely, good and gifted as she\'" Edward Fairfax Rochester. He remains one of nineteenth-century English literature\'s most enduring sex symbols, and, to this day, women the world over continue to swoon for him. Rochester is an imaginative exploration of Charlotte Bronte\'s Jane Eyre as seen through the eyes of a fiercely sensuous and introspective leading man. His story is told with all the realism of a passionate, masculine heart in narrative enriched with keen observations of settings and fellow players. Through Edward\'s words, we leave behind coincidence and politesse to wander through his evocative world and probe what otherwise might have happened from that compelling first meeting onward. We are given Edward\'s life of pain and travel beside him to absolution through the unsullied form of a lonesome young governess. Here, Rochester tells of their journey in his own uninhibited, saucy, conceited, funny, manly way and would never dream of fading to black when the bedchamber door shuts.
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