Villette

Charlotte Bronte, A. S. Byatt, Ignes Sodre

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English

Modern Library Inc
18 June 2019

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

From the author ofJane Eyre,a strikingly modern story of a young woman starting over-with an introduction by Weike Wang, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Chemistry

""Villette!

Villette! Have you read it?"" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel appeared in 1853. ""It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power.""

Arguably Charlotte Bronte's most refined and deeply felt work-Virginia Woolf called it Bronte's ""finest novel""-Villettedraws on its author's own experiences as a governess, and her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. It tells the story of parentless, friendless Lucy Snowe, who flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a boarding school in the small French town of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is challenged 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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By: Charlotte Bronte
Introduction by: A. S. Byatt, Ignes Sodre
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 535g
ISBN: 9780375758508
ISBN 10: 037575850X
Pages: 656
Publication Date: 18 June 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charlotte Brontë (1816–55) grew up in a remote parsonage on the moors of Yorkshire, where she invented fantastical stories alongside her sisters, Emily and Anne, and brother, Branwell. In 1847, the sisters published their first novels, Jane Eyre (Charlotte), Wuthering Heights (Emily), and Agnes Grey (Anne), under male pseudonyms to commercial and critical success. All three of Charlotte’s siblings died within the next two years; left alone, she wrote two more novels, Shirley and Villette, while caring for her ill father. She married in 1854 and died during pregnancy on March 31, 1855.

Reviews for Villette

Bronte's finest novel. --Virginia Woolf Bronte s finest novel. --Virginia Woolf Bronte ' s finest novel. --Virginia Woolf Bronte's finest novel. --Virginia Woolf