Villette
Villette
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Villette

Part of the Wordsworth Classics Book Series
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Arguably Bronte’s most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her experiences as a student in Brussels as well as her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy’s struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Bronte’s strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9781853260728
    Publication Date
    October 5, 1993
    Publisher
    Wordsworth Editions Ltd
    Original Publication Date
    January 1, 1853
    Page Count
    472
    Audience
    Adult
    WorldCat Number (OCLC)
    186688276

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