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Villette

By Charlotte Brontë

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Villette

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Description
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 Bronte'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 Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and its use of comedy, ironic or exuberant, in the service of an ultimately sombre vision, make Villette especially appealing to the modern reader.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
592
Release Date:
2010-12-01
Publication Date:
2008-04-17
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199536651
ISBN13:
9780199536658
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
412 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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