Jane Eyre
by BRONTE, CHARLOTTE
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland: Tower Books, 1943. Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of classic film version starring Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, and Margaret O’Brien. Ownership signature dated November 20, 1943. Pages tanned as usual, else near fine bright copy with some slight wear to the corners and top and bottom of the spine in a very good plus dust jacket with some very small chips and minor dust soiling to the rear panel. The dust jacket shows photographs of Welles and Fontaine in a loving embrace on the front cover and on the spine.
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
- James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22839E
- Title
- Jane Eyre
- Author
- BRONTE, CHARLOTTE
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Tower Books
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1943
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
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Santa Barbara, California
About James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
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