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Villette (Everyman Paperbacks) - Softcover

Book 1 of 40: Modern Library Torchbearers

Bronte, Charlotte

 
9780460013512: Villette (Everyman Paperbacks)

Synopsis

Written three years before her death, this story about the romances of Lucy Snowe reflects Bronte's teaching experiences in Brussels and her bitter emotions

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Review

"Bronte's finest novel."
--Virginia Woolf

From the Back Cover

Arguably Bronte's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her experiences as a student in Brussels as well as her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Bronte's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free.

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