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Bronte, Charlotte

Villette

Pan Books, 1973

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Year of publication
1973
ISBN
0330237128
Place of printing
London
Author
Bronte, Charlotte
Publishers
Pan Books
Edition
First Thus
Keyword
FICTION ENGISH LITERATURE CHARLOTTE BRONTE QQ
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

First published in 1853, "Villette" is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work. Her narrrator, 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. Introduction and notes by Gilbert Phelps. 500p. Crisp, unmarked paperback.