Villette

Charlotte Brontë, Helen Cooper

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Penguin Classics
24 June 2004

'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 and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emmanuel. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels, Charlotte Bronte's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances.

By: Charlotte Brontë
Edited by: Helen Cooper
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 458g
ISBN: 9780140434798
ISBN 10: 0140434798
Pages: 672
Publication Date: 24 June 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charlotte Bronte (1816-55), along with her sisters Anne and Emily, is among the greatest 19th century English novelists and author of Jane Eyre. Helen M. Cooper is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is also the author of a number of books and articles.