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Shirley (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
from Penguin Classics
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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The Best of the Brontes 
To a reader who had no knowledge of Charlotte Brontë, other than as the author of Jane Eyre, the beginning of this book would present a challenge. Such a reader would be surprised at the depth of the story and its seeming disregard of all romantic notions. Instead of introducing us to some pretty, sweet heroine, we are faced with the dangers of mob violence and the harshness of the main hero, the miller, Robert Moore. Politics also makes an entrance in the first few chapters, and the reader will find... more info
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Fabulous Read...if you like George Eliot's books you'll love this. 
O.k. So, this isn't a perfectly constructed book. During the writing of this novel, Charlotte Bronte had her entire family dying around her so I can hardly blame her for different parts of the book having different tones. DONT LET THE FIRST CHAPTERS PUT YOU OFF! They're a little dry --> but it flourishes as it bounds along.
The main oddity to the novel is the fact that the people that are set up in the very beginning, are not alluded to again [e.g. the vicars], and the people that we get to know and... more info
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Shirley is not as good as Jane Austen or Jane Eyre but is still a good book
Charlotte Bronte's condition of England novel "Shirley" wa published following her big literary hit "Jane Eyre." The novel has always had mixed reviews and is slow moving and episodic in content.
The first part of the novel deals with the budding love between Caroline Helstone and Robert Moore. Caroline is the niece of a sober minded clergyman the Rev. Helstone. During the course of the tale she learns that Shirley's lady maid Mrs. Pryor is her mother. Caroline is painted in colors much like those of... more info
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A very engaging read!
I loved this book, though admittedly it reads a bit like a rough draft with several stories which are not very well integrated. In the introduction, Bronte claims Shirley is anything but a romance, and indeed the first few chapters are so dry (focusing on the very minor and not very interesting characters of the vicars and other religious personnel) that one needs patience to continue reading.
Indeed this is understandable given that Charlotte's beloved sisters Anne and Emily and her beloved but... more info
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