Villette

Title: Villette
Author: Charlotte Brontë
Fiction: 1693393
ISBN: 9780140434798
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 2004
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Section: Fiction | Classics
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love.

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.

"I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette..." --George Eliot

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