Books with title Villette

"Villette", Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian era novel which was originally published in 1853, is the story of Lucy Snowe, who following a family tragedy travels to the fictional town of Villette to teach at an all-girls school. There she finds herself unwillingly drawn into adventure and romantic entanglement. A must read for fans of the Bronte sisters, "Villette" is often praised for its exploration of repression and the role of women in society.

"Villette", Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian era novel which was originally published in 1853, is the story of Lucy Snowe, who following a family tragedy travels to the fictional town of Villette to teach at an all-girls school. There she finds herself unwillingly drawn into adventure and romantic entanglement. A must read for fans of the Bronte sisters, "Villette" is often praised for its exploration of repression and the role of women in society.

This ebook contains links to a FREE AUDIOBOOK that can be downloaded to your device!""Villette"! "Villette"! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than "Jane Eyre". There is something almost preternatural in its power."Arguably Brontë's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette,flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Brontë's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free.

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power." Arguably Brontë's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship with a wordly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Brontë's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free. "Villette is an amazing book," observed novelist Susan Fromberg Schaeffer. "Written before psychoanalysis came into being, Villette is nevertheless a psychoanalytic work—a psychosexual study of its heroine, Lucy Snowe. Written before the philosophy of existentialism was formulated, the novel's view of the world can only be described as existential. . . . Today it is read and discussed more intensely than Charlotte Brontë's other novels, and many critics now beleive it to be a true masterpiece, a work of genius that more than fulfilled the promise of Jane Eyre." Indeed, Virginia Woolf judged Villette to be Brontë's "finest novel."

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Villette is the story of Lucy Snow, a teacher at an all-girls boarding school in Belgium who finds herself caught up in her students' romances, reunited with old friends, and searching for a love of her own. Exploring themes of gender roles, repression, isolation, and religion, Villette is best known for following Lucy's psychological state. Villette, originally published using Charlotte Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell, was reworked from her first novel The Professor after it was turned down by publishers, and reflects Brontë's own experiences as both a student and teacher at a boarding school. It has been adapted for radio and television, and inspired Jamaica Kincaid's 1990 novel Lucy. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital form, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallet.

After a family tragedy, Lucy Snowe is suddenly left alone and without the means to support herself. At first she stays with her grandmother, then becomes employed as a carer for a disabled lady, then she boards a ship and sails to France. Despite only knowing a smattering of French, she finds employment as a governess for a family in a French girls’ school. It is there that she meets the hot-headed and impatient Monsieur Paul and they become passionately attracted to each other. Villette, is one of the finest regency romances in 19th century literature, with a wonderful gothic twist in the form of a restless Nun haunting the Pensionnat in which our heroine works.This edition has been illustrated by John Jellicoe and has an active index of chapters for easy navigation. George Eliot said of Villette "Villette! Villette! Have you read it? It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power."Charlotte Bronte also wrote the novels, Shirley, The Professor, Jane Eyre and the unfinished Emma.Love it? Give it a 5* rating.