Villette - Softcover

Brontė, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8854187313 ISBN 13: 9788854187313

Publisher: Newton Compton, 2016

Synopsis

From an artistic point of view, the most perfect of Charlotte Brontė's stories. Practically an autobiography, it abounds with rich humour and keen analysis of character. Show Excerpt Bretton's side; a mug of milk stood before her, a morsel of bread filled her hand, which lay passive on the table-cloth: she was not eating. "How we shall conciliate this little creature," said Mrs. Bretton to me, "I don't know: she tastes nothing, and by her looks, she has not slept." I expressed my confidence in the effects of time and kindness. "If she were to take a fancy to anybody in the house, she would soon settle; but not till then," replied Mrs. Bretton. CHAPTER II. PAULINA. Some days elapsed, and it appeared she was not likely to take much of a fancy to anybody in the house. She was not exactly naughty or wilful: she was far from disobedient; but an object less conducive to comfort--to tranquillity even--than she presented, it was scarcely possible to have before one's eyes. She moped: no grown person could have performed that uncheering business better; no furrowed face of adult exile, longing

About this edition

• Publisher: Newton Compton
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 8854187313
• ISBN 13: 9788854187313
• Binding: Paperback