Description
Title: Villette
Author: BRONTE CHARLOTTE
Illustrator: HELEN COOPER
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 24/06/2004
Imprint: PENGUIN CLASSIC
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
‘I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette – There is something preternatural about its power’ George Eliot
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 autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances.
ISBN: 9780140434798
Weight: 484g
Dimension: 197mm X 129mm
Pages: 672
Edition: 01