Villette (Everyman Paperbacks)

Bronte, Charlotte

ISBN 10: 0460013513 / ISBN 13: 9780460013512

Published by Dutton Books, 1966

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact (dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but notes cannot obscure the text. Reprint. Cover creased and previously water damaged. A slight tan to the page edges, and a number written on the first page. Contents clear within. A good reading copy.

Seller Inventory # rev1401946703

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Villette (Everyman Paperbacks)
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Publication Date: 1966
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0460013513
• ISBN 13: 9780460013512
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Acceptable
• Weight: 258.5 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Written three years before her death, this story about the romances of Lucy Snowe reflects Bronte's teaching experiences in Brussels and her bitter emotions

From the Publisher

With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in 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.