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Villette by Charlotte Brontë (1997, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100679602747
ISBN-139780679602743
eBay Product ID (ePID)48672
Product Key Features
Book TitleVillette
Number of Pages608 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TopicGeneral, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorCharlotte Brontë
Book SeriesModern Library Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight21.2 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-009956
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal823.8
SynopsisWith her final novel,Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853,Villetteis Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing evenJane Eyrein critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquetter. This first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey--a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature., 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. Charlotte Bront 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., This book raises serious doubts about much of the accepted wisdom regarding the relative bargaining powers of landlords and tenants. Using unpublished data from the 1850s onwards, it shows how tenancy has helped in a slow but smooth transfer of land from absentee landlords to tenants and other cultivators, often gving them an upper hand.
LC Classification NumberPR4167.V5 1997
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