Moreover, reading a classic on your own time can be a bigger intellectual adventure than reading it for college credit, when you know you’ll be graded on having learned the book’s standard interpretation and the professor might be pouring that conventional wisdom into your head before you’ve even finished the text. ![]() ![]() A heavy diet of movies can make you crave the immersive power of a great novel, the sense of being plunged deep into another person’s consciousness, that so few filmmakers promise and even fewer deliver. Somehow I managed to earn two English degrees without ever reading Jane Eyre, so when Focus Features announced a release date for the latest screen adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 masterpiece, I resolved to crack the book at long last.
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