1943 publication; Jayne Eyre; Wuthering Heights two book set; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte; 1943; Beautiful books inside protective slipcase; "Illustrated with Wood Engravings by Fritz Eichenberg"; Random House Publishers; very good condition of books; slipcase is poor condition with edge and surface wear.
 
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Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell". The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.
 
Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the Byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalisation of the action—the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility, and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry—Jane Eyre revolutionised the art of fiction.
 
Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Proust and Joyce.  The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of Christian morality at its core, but is nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel's exploration of classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism.