Bronte Charlotte Jane Eyre

Bronte, Charlotte: JANE EYRE. Aus dem Engl.u.Nachw.v.Berhard Schindler. Leipzig, G.Kiepenheuer 1989.
Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855) ist die älteste der drei außergewöhnlichen Schriftsteller-Schwestern. Jane Eyre markierte Charlotte Brontes Durchbruch und trug ihr wegen der freimütigen Ansichten ihrer Heldin zeitlebens den Ruf einer moralischen Umstürzlerin ein. Jane Eyre ist intelligent und charakterstark, das macht sie zur Außenseiterin. Charlotte Bronte veröffentlichte "Jane Eyre - eine Autobiographie" im Jahr 1847 unter dem Pseudonym Currer Bell. Der Roman wurde von der Öffentlichkeit so gut aufgenommen, daß 1848 schon die dritte Auflage erscheinen konnte. Mit dramaturgischen Elementen der Gothic novels (Schauerroman) und des Sensationsromans schuf Charlotte Bronte eines der differenziertesten Frauenporträts der englischen Literatur. Von der feministischen Literaturkritik wird Jane Eyre häufig als rationalistischer Gegenentwurf zu Sturmhöhe, dem Hauptwerk Emily R Brontes, interpretiert. Mit ihrem Roman steht Charlotte Bronte einem Defoe in der Erzählweise deutlich näher als etwa Dickens oder Thackeray, obwohl sie weniger Sozialkritik oder naturgetreue Milieudarstellungen in den Vordergrund rückt, als vielmehr das Seelenleben ihrer Protagonistin.Ein wenig werkgetreuer Hollywoodfilm aus dem Jahre 1944 [mit Joan Fontaine und Orson Welles] reduzierte die Handlung allerdings zu sehr auf romantische Aspekte.; SEHR GUTER ZUSTAND [hehöbu]

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(BRONTE, Charlotte). Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell. London. Smith, Elder & Co. 1847.
First edition of Charlotte Bronte's pseudonymously published first novel and the first published work of any of the Bronte sisters.Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855), the eldest of the three Bronte sisters published Jane Eyre in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell and was thought by many contemporary reviewers to be a man. Charlotte and her sisters Anne and Emily had previously published (in May 1846) a collection of poetry - also pseudonymously - under the names Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, deliberately using androgynous names on the grounds that 'authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice'. Although the collection met with little success (reports suggest that only two copies were actually sold), the sisters persisted with their literary endeavours and in 1847 published three of the most important English novels of the Victorian, or indeed any, period: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights (Emily) and Agnes Grey (Anne), although it is clear that the publication of the two latter novels depended very much on the success of the first. Jane Eyre, with its Gothic overtones, Byronic hero, proto-feminist heroine and vampiric mad woman in the attic appealed enormously to its Victorian audience and was an enormous success; published initially in an edition of five hundred copies, a second edition was published a mere three months later.'It is sure to be in demand.' (Prescient contemporary reviewer writing shortly after publication in The Critic, October 1847).'This [Jane Eyre], indeed, is a book after our own heart; and, if its merits have not forced it into notice by the time this paper comes before our readers, let us, in all earnestness, bid them lose not a day in sending for it ... no such book has gladdened our eyes for a long while ... The story is not only of singular interest, naturally evolved, unflagging to the last, but it fastens itself upon your attention, and will not leave you. The book closed, the enchantment continues.' (Contemporary reviewer writing in Fraser's Magazine, December 1847).

3 vols. 8vo. Each vol. with half-title and title, pp. 304, (i), 32, (i); 304; 311 (pp. 85 misnumbered 89, 225 misnumbered 252). Original publisher's purple cloth by Westleys & Clark, with their ticket to rear pastedown of first volume, boards with blindstamped fillets and decoration, decoration in blind and titles gilt to spines, yellow endpapers, matching cloth box. [PROVENANCE: illegible contemporary ownership signatures to front free endpapers verso; later effaced ownership signatures to first leaves of text of each volume: E. M. George / Pound Rd. / Aylsham].

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Bronte, Charlotte, Anne, & Emily, & Gaskell, E C, [edited by Temple Scott]: Novels of the Sisters Bronte: The Professor, Agnes Hall, Wildfell Hall, Shirley, Villette, Jane Eyre [Vol 2 only], & The Life of Charlotte Bronte, [10 volumes] Published by John Grant , Edinburgh , 1911
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Bronte, Charlotte, Anne, & Emily, & Gaskell, E C, [edited by Temple Scott], Novels of the Sisters Bronte: The Professor, Agnes Hall, Wildfell Hall, Shirley, Villette, Jane Eyre [Vol 2 only], & The Life of Charlotte Bronte, [10 volumes]

, 10 uniform volumes of a 12-volume set, each illustrated with frontispiece and other black & white plates, Shirley, Villette, Wildfell Hall, & Jane Eyre are in 2 vols, missing Jane Eyre Vol 1 and Wuthering Heights to complete the set Thornton Edition Octavo Hardback , volumes in similar condition, with just light shelf wear to spine ends and corners, cloth slightly darkened at edges of boards, nice bright gilt at spines, all tightly bound, light spots at prelims and the odd page but generally nice and clean internally, overall the set is in very good- condition 75.00 , green cloth with gilt titles and floral decoration at spine, top edge gilt

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Bronte, Charlotte / Bronte, Emily: Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights, J.J. Little & Ives Co.,Inc.,N.Y. 1946 ; fester Einband / hard cover
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008819 Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights by Charlotte / Bronte, Emily Bronte. Published by J.J. Little & Ives Co.,Inc.,N.Y. in 1946. HARD COVER 8vo Library Edition Book Condition GOOD NO JACKET Jacket Condition Details apparently not issued. Book Condition Details Binding: a weak front-hinge, slightly frayed ends, Cover: fraying, heavy edge wear, soiling, creasing on Spine, scuffing, Text: tanning, soiled page edge(s), occasional creasing, occasional stained pages. Contents Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Jane Eyre Adapted by Henry I Christ and Jerome Carlin; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte; Wuthering Heights Adapted by Mark Neville and Ruby Withers. Library Edition No Jacket Hard Cover 8vo; Library Edition

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