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Now considered by many to be Charlotte Brontė’s best novel, though unlikely to eclipse Jane Eyre in fame and popularity, Villette is largely concerned with the experiences of Lucy Snowe in a girl's boarding school in a fictionalised Belgium. Lucy flees unhappiness in England only to find more abroad. Her love for Dr John unrequited, she slowly realises that a deeper attachment is growing between her and her irascible domineering mentor and colleague, M. Paul Emanuel. The promise of fulfilment and the realisation of love with a man with whom she might live on something like equal terms hangs in the balance in a story that dwells on powerful emotions without ever lapsing into sentimentality.
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Review:
"Bronte's finest novel."
--Virginia Woolf
From the Back Cover:
--Virginia Woolf
"From the Trade Paperback edition."
" Bronte ' s finest novel."
--Virginia Woolf
"From the Trade Paperback edition."
"Bronte's finest novel."
--Virginia Woolf
"From the Trade Paperback edition."
"Bronte's finest novel."
--Virginia Woolf
"Bronte s finest novel."
--Virginia Woolf"
"Bronte's finest novel."
--Virginia Woolf
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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- PublisherNaxos Audiobooks Ltd
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1522636234
- ISBN 13 9781522636236
- BindingMP3 CD
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