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Adele : Jane Eyre's Hidden Story
Adele Jane Eyre's Hidden Story
Author: Emma Tennant
I loved to be tomorrow, — walking always a few feet behind today. — Little did I know then the cruel pantomime I would — be coerced into making come true. The daughter of a celebrated Parisian actress, Adèle is a homesick, forlorn eight-year-old when first brought to Thornfield Hall by Edward Fairfax Rochester, her mother's former lover. Lonel...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780060004552
ISBN-10: 006000455X
Publication Date: 12/1/2003
Pages: 240
Rating:
  • Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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2.8 stars, based on 9 ratings
Publisher: Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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miss-info avatar reviewed Adele : Jane Eyre's Hidden Story on + 386 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I could not get into this book, and after struggling through a couple chapters, I gave up. The writing style was just too abstract for me. Things went on for paragraphs and I wouldn't know what was happening, only to realize NOTHING was happening. A lot of words around very little plot. Here's a sample of a single sentence:

I was spoiled, I knew it - but her lovers knew they must please me if they were to win the love of my mother - and what I knew and they knew made for a kind of laughing friendshp between us with the young men (they were invariably younger than Maman, though I didn't konw it then) vying with one another to buy me ice cream made from pistachio nuts, or lollipops with the face of Pierrot painted on, or whatever novelty I craved.
miss-info avatar reviewed Adele : Jane Eyre's Hidden Story on + 386 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I could not get into this book, and after struggling through a couple chapters, I gave up. The writing style was just too abstract for me. Things went on for paragraphs and I wouldn't know what was happening, only to realize NOTHING was happening. A lot of words around very little plot. Here's a sample of a single sentence:

I was spoiled, I knew it - but her lovers knew they must please me if they were to win the love of my mother - and what I knew and they knew made for a kind of laughing friendshp between us with the young men (they were invariably younger than Maman, though I didn't konw it then) vying with one another to buy me ice cream made from pistachio nuts, or lollipops with the face of Pierrot painted on, or whatever novelty I craved.
miss-info avatar reviewed Adele : Jane Eyre's Hidden Story on + 386 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I could not get into this book, and after struggling through a couple chapters, I gave up. The writing style was just too abstract for me. Things went on for paragraphs and I wouldn't know what was happening, only to realize NOTHING was happening. A lot of words around very little plot. Here's a sample of a single sentence:

I was spoiled, I knew it - but her lovers knew they must please me if they were to win the love of my mother - and what I knew and they knew made for a kind of laughing friendshp between us with the young men (they were invariably younger than Maman, though I didn't konw it then) vying with one another to buy me ice cream made from pistachio nuts, or lollipops with the face of Pierrot painted on, or whatever novelty I craved.
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