100 Books You Must Read - #31 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

It's Jane Eyre July! What does that mean?
All of the selections this month will have some connection to the book Jane Eyre,
starting off with Jane Eyre itself being the pick for this week!
The song in this video "The Poor Orphan Child" was composed, performed and recorded by duckpondwithoutducks.

Jane Eyre as a musical:

2000 -- book by John Caird, music and lyrics by Paul Gordon. Opened with Marla Schaffel as Jane and James Barbour as Rochester. I saw it on stage and cried buckets! Then I bought the soundtrack and I listen to it over and over again -- tuneful and melodic.

2000 -- libretto by David Malouf, composed by Michael Berkeley. I never saw it on stage, I only had the soundtrack CD, but it is just too dissonant for my taste, and I don't mind dissonance!

The 100 Books (So Far)
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*Book Title - Author - Year Of First Publication (Author's Country Of Origin)*

Children
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett - 1904 (England) - #12/13
Anne Of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery - 1908 (Canada) - #4
Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren - 1945 (Sweden) - #28/29
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - 1964 (Wales) - #28/29
The Ordinary Princess - M. M. Kaye - 1980 (England) - #12/13

Teen/Young Adult
The Disreputable History Of Frankie Landau-Banks - E. Lockhart - 2008 (U.S.) - #26
13 Little Blue Envelopes - Maureen Johnson - 2005 (U.S.) - #1
Paper Towns - John Green - 2008 (U.S.) - #21

Classic
Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen - 1811 (England)-#15/16/17/18/19/20
Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen - 1813 (England) - #15/16/17/18/19/20
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen - 1814 (England) - #15/16/17/18/19/20
Emma - Jane Austen - 1816 (England) - #15/16/17/18/19/20
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen - 1818 (England) - #15/16/17/18/19/20
Persuasion - Jane Austen - 1818 (England) - #15/16/17/18/19/20
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - 1847 (England) - #31
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - 1859 (England) - #6
Around The World In 80 Days - Jules Verne - 1873 (France) - #8
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - 1885 (U.S.) - #22

Contemporary Classic
Animal Farm - George Orwell - 1945 (England) - #25
To Kill A Mockingbird -- 1960 (U.S.) - #30

Mystery
Fer-de-lance - Rex Stout - 1934 (U.S.) - #24
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie - 1939 (England) - #2
The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie - 2009 (Canada) - #5

Romance
The Convenient Marriage - Georgette Heyer - 1934 (England) - #10

Scifi
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams - 1979 (England) - #9

Fantasy
The Princess Bride - William Goldman - 1973 (U.S.) - #23

Humour/Comedy
Much Obliged, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse - 1971 (England) - #27

Memoir
Little Princes - Conor Grennan - 2011 (U.S.) - #14

Contemporary Fiction
Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn - 2001 (U.S.) - #11
Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay - 2007 (France) - #7
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer/Annie Barrows - 2008 (U.S.) - #3

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[2eyre]

jane eyre is my new favourite book...hence my username! i understand the full plot but now im analysing it to try and get all the background information like gender issues at the time :)

[duckpondwithoutducks]

@2eyre It is such a good book - I first read it when I was 12, and it's been my favourite book ever since! And it is so rich in meaning!

[nenalyzed]

you wrote your own screenplay? awesomeness much?

really liked the musical intermission

(humbug is a great word btw)

[duckpondwithoutducks]

@nenalyzed Yeah, one day I was talking with a friend about what I would like to see in a screenplay of Jane Eyre, and she said, "Why don't you write it?"  So, I did! I was home sick for a couple of weeks, and took that time to do it. It was so much fun! And yes, humbug is a great word!

[duckpondwithoutducks]

I tried to put these comments in the video description, but it wouldn't let me, it said that it made the description too long, so I shall put them here!

There have been many movies made about Jane Eyre, these are the ones that I have seen:

[duckpondwithoutducks]

Movie Version - 1934 – starring Virginia Bruce and Colin Clive – b&w – feature film length - absolutely laughable, with a drunken coachman, and a madwoman walking down the attic stairs going “Wooo, wooo!” who Jane doesn't question!

1944 – starring Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles – b&w – feature film length - beautifully atmospheric, with a cameo role by Elizabeth Taylor as Helen Burns. Orson Welles is a splendidly brooding Rochester, even though the end seems to come too abruptly.

[nenalyzed]

@duckpondwithoutducks I'm truly impressed :D

[nenalyzed]

YESSS!! I have read this book! multiple times! and I loved it!

[duckpondwithoutducks]

Movie Version - 1970 – starring Susannah York and George C. Scott – feature film length - not bad, even though Scott seems just a trifle old for the role. The version I watched was on videocassette of poor visual and sound quality, it would probably be more enjoyable if it were remastered on DVD.

[duckpondwithoutducks]

Movie Version - 1973 – starring Sorcha Cusack and Michael Jayston – miniseries – very faithful to the book

1983 – starring Zelah Clarke and Timothy Dalton – miniseries – Timothy Dalton is my favourite Rochester, even though the production values of the miniseries aren't as high as the later films