Charlotte Brontë's final masterpiece powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence.
Having fled a harrowing past in England, Lucy Snowe begins a new life teaching at a boarding school in the great capital of a foreign country. There, as she tries to achieve independence from both outer necessity and inward grief, she finds that her feelings for a worldly doctor and a dictatorial professor threaten her hard-won self-possession.
Published in 1853, Charlotte Bronte's last novel was written in the wake of her grief at the death of her siblings. It has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as a striking modernity of psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness.
| ISBN: | 9780307455567 |
| Publication date: | 7th April 2009 |
| Author: | Charlotte Brontë |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 657 pages |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Narrative theme: Coming of age General Fiction |
Charlotte Brontë's final masterpiece powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence.Having fled a harrowing past in England, Lucy Snowe begins a new life teaching at a boarding school in the great capital of a foreign country. There, as she tries to achieve independence from both outer necessity and inward grief, she finds that her feelings for a worldly doctor and a dictatorial professor threaten her hard-won self-possession.
Villette features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, General Fiction
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Villette was written by Charlotte Brontë and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Villette has 657 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage Classics series