Villette |
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| Author:
| Bronte, Charlotte |
| Editor:
| Cooper, Helen M. |
| Introduction by:
| Cooper, Helen M. |
| Notes by:
| Cooper, Helen M. |
| Illustrator:
| Bickford-Smith, Coralie |
| Series title: | Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-241-19896-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2016 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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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. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels, Charlotte Bronte's last and most...
More DescriptionWith 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. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels, Charlotte Bronte's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love.