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Easton Press leather edition of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Illustrated by Barnett Freedman, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN series, published in 1978. Bound in brown leather, the book has tan French moire silk end leaves, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, gold gilt on three edges--in near FINE condition---most would list as FINE. Charlotte Bronte lived from 1816-1855. "Jane Eyre," published under her pen name "Currer Bell" in 1847, is a Bildungsroman which follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of THORNFIELD HALL. The novel revolutionized prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative , where actions and events are colored by a psychological intensity. Charlotte Brontë has been called the "first historian of the private consciousness," and the literary ancestor of writers like Marcel Proust and James Joyce. The book contains elements of social criticism with a strong sense of Christian morality at its core, and it is considered by many to be ahead of its time because of Jane's individualistic character and how the novel approaches the topics of class, sexuality, religion, and feminism. 431 pages. I offer combined shipping.