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Penguin Classics
14 November 2016
A beautiful new edition to accompany the Brontes' other great novels in Penguin Clothbound Classics

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. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels, Charlotte Bronte's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love.
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Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 205mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 41mm
Weight:   787g
ISBN:   9780241198964
ISBN 10:   0241198968
Series:   Penguin Clothbound Classics
Pages:   672
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Charlotte Bronte was born in Yorkshire in 1816. As a child, she was sent to boarding school, where two of her sisters died; she was subsequently educated at home with her younger siblings, Emily, Branwell and Anne. As an adult, Charlotte worked as a governess and taught in a school in Brussels. Jane Eyre was first published in 1847 under the pen-name Currer Bell, and was followed by Shirley (1848), Villette (1853) and The Professor (posthumously published in 1857). In 1854 Charlotte married her father's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died in March of the following year.

Reviews for Villette

I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette - there is something preternatural about its power -- George Eliot


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