The Borough Press Reader, I Married Him, Contemporary Fiction, Paperback, Edited by Tracy Chevalier
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Brand: The Borough Press
Description: 'This collection is stormy, romantic, strong - the Full Bronte' The Times A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Bronte, published in the year of her bicentenary and stemming from the now immortal words from her great work Jane Eyre. The Borough Press Reader, I Married Him, Contemporary Fiction, Paperback, Edited by Tracy Chevalier - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Harper Collins
Product ID: 9780008150600
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Dimensions: 129x198mm
Keywords: Jane Eyre,Brontë Anniversary,Brontë Parsonage,Rochester,Bertha Mason,Modern Short,Anthology,Brontë Sisters,Brontë Bicentenary,The Woman In The Attic,Love,Marriage,Weddings
ISBN: 9780008150600
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Author: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5
Review: Most of these stories were perfect miniatures of literary fiction. Behind the Mountain was as subtle as a lost story of Katherine Mansfield. Reader, She Married Me had elements of Wide Sargasso Sea, with the first Mrs Rochester suffering postnatal depression. Dorset Gap was a sweet story, in a good 'bookish' way. Despite the botanic inaccuracy of sycamore seeds being in "pods", The Self Seeding Sycamore was a story that really grew on me: a pithy piece of fine grained quality. Not all these marital relationships were heterosexual: The Orphan Exchange was a fantastic contemporary twist on Jane Eyre - war torn from its very pages.
Author: Pat Brunger
Rating: 3
Review: Whilst I enjoyed some of these stories, it becomes clear that potential readers really need to read 'Jane Eyre' in order to see how these stories are relevant, as some of them have but a tenuous link to the novel. The stories are linked to the words 'Reader, I married Him'. A good short story is difficult to write, so I applaud the various authors for their contributions, but I have to say that some of them were a little confusing and others were a little weak. I enjoyed 'The Orphan Exchange' and 'The Doublemen' most of all. I had to read 'Jane Eyre' to see the relevance of the stories; I thought the novel was superb. This is a good collection of stories to discuss within a reading group, rather than on one's own.
