A book written by Charlotte Brontë was sold at auction for €600,000 ($663,399) to the Brontë Society in the UK. 

The small book, around the size of a matchbox, was written by Charlotte Brontë when she was 14 years old. Brontë wrote six tiny books in her youth of which only five are known to have survived. The Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England, now owns all of them.

Kitty Wright, executive director of the Brontë Society, said: "We were determined to do everything we could to bring back this extraordinary 'little book'... and now can't quite believe that it will in fact be coming home to where it was written 189 years ago." 

The Brontë society, which runs the museum, had started a Crowdfunder campaign to acquire the necessary funds. The campaign raised $110,000 that supplemented a fund it had already raised from other sources.

It wasn't the first time the Bronte Society had attempted to buy the manuscript. In 2011 it came up for auction but was bought by a private collector. 

The book contains three complete short stories called 'A Letter from Lord Charles Wellesley,' 'The Midnight Song' and 'Journal of a Frenchman.' It is only 20 pages long.

The 'little book' was part of a series called 'The Young Men's Magazine' and was meant to be small enough for a toy soldier to read, measuring just 35 x 61mm.