Villette

Charlotte Brontë, Margaret Smith, Tim Dolin (Department of English, Department of English, University of Newcastle, Australia)

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Worlds Classics
01 April 2008

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: general

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.'

George Eliot

Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck's school in 'Villette'. Strongly drawn to the fiery autocratic schoolmaster Monsieur Paul Emanuel, Lucy is compelled by Madame Beck's jealous interference to assert her right to love and be loved.

Based in part on Charlotte Brontë's experience in Brussels ten years earlier, Villette (1853) is a cogent and dramatic exploration of a woman's response to the challenge of a constricting social environment. Its deployment of imagery comparable in power to that of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and its use of comedyDSironic or exuberantDSin the service of an ultimately sombre vision, make Villette especially appealing to the modern reader.

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By: Charlotte Brontë
Introduction by: Tim Dolin (Department of English Department of English University of Newcastle Australia)
Edited by: Margaret Smith
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 404g
ISBN: 9780199536658
ISBN 10: 0199536651
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 01 April 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Language: Romanian
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active