Villette
$37.69
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
21 November 2012
Summary
That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol - blind, bloodless, and of granite core. I felt, too, that the trial God had appointed me was gaining its climax, and must now be turned by my own hands, hot, feeble, trembling as they were.
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 s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141199887 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141199881 |
| Author: | Charlotte Brontë |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 21 November 2012 |
| Weight: | 422g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 28mm |
| Series: | The Penguin English Library |
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About The Author
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, one of an extraordinary group of siblings who spent their time immersed in reading and writing and between them went on to change the nature of English fiction. Publishing under the pseudonym Currer Bell, Charlotte was a great friend of Elizabeth Gaskell, who wrote her biography, as well as William Makepeace Thackeray and George Henry Lewes. Bronte’s novels Jane Eyre and Shirley are also published in the Penguin English Library.
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