A lot of people are mentioning Jane Eyre. I don't remember ever reading it, but I may have and just have forgotten. I'll have to take a look at it.

I just went to an online edition and read the first chapter and a portion of the second, and am not inclined to read further. It may have been great literature in its day, but I'm not impressed with it.

I guess my biggest problem is that I'm really not all that "into" books written in the 1800's, at least those written in England. The one exception is Moby Dick, but it was, of course, written by an American. Oh, I forgot Tale of Two Cities.

Jane eyre by charlotte bronte
Middlemarch by george eliot
the lighthouse by Virginia woolf
a tale of two cities by dickens
war and peace by tolstoy

Isn't it "To The Lighthouse"?

I read it for a book discussion group back in the early 90's and found it to be the most boring book I've EVER read. I'm curious, Anisha, what did you find to be so great about it?