Villette

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"I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette..." --George Eliot

With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Bronte's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances.Villette draws on Bronte's own unhappy experience as a governess in BrusselsNew Introduction examines the novel's social and historical context and argues for its importance as an exploration of imperialismIncludes chronology, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes

"I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette..." --George EliotWith neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Bronte's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances.Villette draws on Bronte's own unhappy experience as a governess in BrusselsNew Introduction examines the novel's social and historical context and argues for its importance as an exploration of imperialismIncludes chronology, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes

Features

• Title : Villette
• Author : Charlotte Bronte
• Publisher : Penguin Books
• ISBN : 0140434798
• EAN : 9780140434798
• Binding : Paperback
• Number Of Pages : 672
• Language : English

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