The Professor (Collins Classics) - Softcover

Bronte, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007920687 ISBN 13: 9780007920686

Publisher: William Collins, 2012

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-09-13 Pages: 240 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK The Professor is Charlotte Bronts first novel. reflecting her own experience of life in Brussels and published after her untimely death Viewed as a precursor to the narrative. style and characterisation she perfected in her later works. such as Jane Eyre. the novel is Bront?s portrayal of a love story from a male perspective.Writing from the point of view of orphaned young teacher. William Crimsworth - the sole male protagonist among Bront?s works -. the author allows herself a freedom of action in love and will that reveals her characters loves. desires and ambitions as he forges a new life on his own terms in Brussels William finds himself caught between the desire he feels for Zoraide Reuter. the beguiling head of the girls school where he teaches. and the gentle love he feels for one...

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Review:

At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontė... It is the red and fitful glow of the heart's fire which illuminates her page. --Virginia Woolf

From the Back Cover:

The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Bronte completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846 - Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights - it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Bronte's death. Like Villette (1853), The Professor is based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels in 1842. Told from the point of view of William Crimsworth, the only male narrator that she used, the work formulated a new aesthetic that questioned many of the presuppositions of Victorian society. Bronte's hero escapes from a humiliating clerkship in a Yorkshire mill to find work as a teacher in Belgium, where he falls in love with an impoverished student-teacher, who is perhaps the author's most realistic feminist heroine. The Professor endures today as both a harbinger of Bronte's later novels and a compelling read in its own right.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Collins
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0007920687
• ISBN 13: 9780007920686
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320