Books with title Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte is different from the other sheep. She likes to explore the world around her, climbing up trees and wandering near the dangerous road while the wary old sheep "tsk, tsk." But when danger strikes, only Charlotte is brave enough to go for help and save the day. This beautifully illustrated tale speaks to all shy little sheep who stand out from the crowd and aren't afraid to follow their dreams. Recognition A New York Times Best Illustrated book Reviews "Each dreamlike image is suffused with colors that are rich yet subdued a kind of Chagall-meets-Rothko mash-up that suggests sleepy-time happiness." -New York Times Book Review "The artwork . . . is both handsome and just a bit whimsical." -Booklist "Brave Charlotte is a wonderfully illustrated book. You'll think of Charlotte as smart and brave when the other sheep think she is silly for traveling to get help. A great read." -Book Review Café, About the Author Anu Stohner, born in Helsinki, Finland, is a freelance translator and author living in Munich, Germany. About the Illustrator Henrike Wilson was born in Cologne, Germany, and studied graphic design and painting there and in the U.S. She lives in Germany.

Charlotte Bronte won great fame with her semi-autobiographical novels Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor. Her life story is almost as well-known as the history of her most popular herione, from her bereaved yet extraordinarily creative childhood in a bleak Yorkshire parsonage to her early death just months into a happy marriage to her father's curate. Few writers have had the facts of their lives so inextricably linked with the fiction they wrote. This book, written by an acknowledged expert on the Brontes and beautifully illustrated throughout, provides a fluent, objective and compassionate account of the life of a much loved genius of English literature.

Villette is a novel by Charlotte Brontë, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. The novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as its acute tracing of Lucy's psychology, particularly Brontë's use of Gothic doubling to represent externally what her protagonist is suffering internally.

Villette by Charlotte Brontë. Villette begins with its famously passive protagonist, Lucy Snowe, age 14, staying at the home of her godmother Mrs. Bretton in "the clean and ancient town of Bretton", in England. Also in residence are Mrs. Bretton's son, John Graham Bretton (whom the family calls Graham), and a young visitor, Paulina Home (who is called Polly). Polly is a peculiar little girl who soon develops a deep devotion to Graham, who showers her with attention. But Polly's visit is cut short when her father arrives to take her away. For reasons that are not stated, Lucy leaves Mrs. Bretton's home a few weeks after Polly's departure. Some years pass, during which an unspecified family tragedy leaves Lucy without family, home, or means. After some initial hesitation, she is hired as a caregiver by Miss Marchmont, a rheumatic crippled woman. Lucy is soon accustomed to her work and has begun to feel content with her quiet lifestyle.

The true story of a girl torn between the people she loves most.In this true tale of the American Revolution, Janet Lunn tells the story of Charlotte Haines, a young girl who must face one of the cruel realities of war – family division. Tensions mount in the aftermath of the rebel victory in New York. Charlotte’s father supports the rebel Patriots and has broken all ties with the Empire. A stubborn man, he even shuns his own brother, a Loyalist. Forbidden to see her cousins who are only hours away from their departure for what would become Canada, Charlotte must make a difficult decision.

I came to create the Leggets from a picture I’d seen at a country fair. It was this picture on the side of a big ridge fair truck with a beautiful woman on the front of it. She had dark and lovely black hair and a fair skin like a model and the best boobs and the perfect waistline and a sinister smile, but below her waist were eight black widow spider legs. I nearly freaked out! Oh boy, I imagined all sorts of stuff, and then somewhere inside my brain, I wondered what it would be like if she had kids. And so the idea of a bubbly and delightful character named Charlotte Legget was created. She wasn’t named Charlotte at first; I called her Carmyn. I didn’t really like that name, and over the course of time, I thought of a good name for a spider. Then I remembered the spider in Charlotte’s web, except this one is spiderlike human like her parents. So the Leggets came to live on the island of Sapelo with humans, and they so want to be accepted by humans. They are good spiders too.The Leggets are as normal looking as humans, but they are spiders with the desire to live in the human society and be accepted and treated equally by humans. There are a few problems in this first story with the neighbors accepting them, but they work out. It is a very delightful story with ten or eleven more tales to it.