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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Hudson, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
This is a vintage copy of "JANE EYRE" by Charlotte Bronte with its original dust jacket. Circa 1950's (there is no date of publication stated); The Modern Library; New York. From the dust jacket: "In her introduction to her sister's novel, Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte wrote: 'The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something that strangely wills and works for itself.' This observation has an especial application to her own Jane Eyre, for it emphasizes the reasons for the vitality and individuality of one of the most highly cherished treasures in our literature. Since it is partially autobiographical, the poignancy of Jane Eyre is linked to the deathless interest and the heartrending pathos of the lives of the Brontes."
Condition:
Clean covers and spine. The lettering on the front cover and spine has partially faded. Tiny cloth tear at the top-left corner tip of the back cover. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Nice interior - the pages are mostly clean with only staining along the gutter between pages 22 and 23. The pages up to page 22 at the front have a light diagonal crease at the lower-outer corner. The blue top stain at the top edge of the text block has partially faded. Overall the book is in Very Good condition. The dust jacket has some small tears along the perimeter, and some small pieces missing/tears at the top of the spine and flap corners...overall the jacket is in Good condition.
Synopsis
Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre, an Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell". Orphaned as a child, Jane felt like an outcast during her childhood. She was sent by her cruel aunt to a boarding school where she was met with further torment. After the devastating loss of a friend, she finds herself enrolled under a new headmaster at the Lowood School and finds her life drastically changed. She spends eight more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in love. Hard. But there is a terrifying secret inside the gloomy, forbidding Thornfield Hall…
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Details
- Bookseller
- CraigsClassics
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6975
- Title
- Jane Eyre
- Author
- Charlotte Bronte
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- charlotte anne emily bronte sisters, jane eyre, villette, shirley, the professor, agnes grey, tenant wildfell hall, emily dickinson, wuthering heights, jane austen, pride prejudice, sense sensibility, persuasion, northanger abbey, mansfield park
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Fiction;
Terms of Sale
CraigsClassics
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
CraigsClassics
Biblio member since 2018
Hudson, New Hampshire
About CraigsClassics
My store offers a curated selection of antiquarian books in a variety of topics with an emphasis on classic literature and children's classics. I take pride in providing great customer service with prompt replies to offers and inquiries, careful packaging and next-day shipping. Based in scenic southern New Hampshire.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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