| Villette Revised Edition Contributor(s): Brontė, Charlotte (Author), Cooper, Helen M. (Editor), Cooper, Helen M. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0140434798 ISBN-13: 9780140434798 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2004 Annotation: 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 schools English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Bronts 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004275825 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 5.12" W x 7.76" (1.02 lbs) 672 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette... --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. Charlotte Bront '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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |