Villette by Charlotte Brontë - ISBN: 9780140434798
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Orphaned governess confronts love and isolation in a foreign land.

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    672 pages

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    24 June 2004

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Summary

‘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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140434798
ISBN-10:0140434798
Author:Charlotte Brontë
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:672
Edition:1st
Release Date:24 June 2004
Weight:476g
Dimensions:197mm x 128mm x 39mm
Series:Penguin Classics
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I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette… (George Eliot)”

I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette… (George Eliot)”

About The Author

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Bronte was born in Yorkshire in 1816. As a child, she was sent to boarding school, where two of her sisters died; she was subsequently educated at home with her younger siblings, Emily, Branwell and Anne. As an adult, Charlotte worked as a governess and taught in a school in Brussels. Jane Eyre was first published in 1847 under the pen-name Currer Bell, and was followed by Shirley (1848), Villette (1853) and The Professor (posthumously published in 1857). In 1854 Charlotte married her father’s curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died in March of the following year.

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