Villette

Charlotte Bront '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.

Author: Charlotte Brontë
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/07/2009
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.24w x 1.17d
ISBN13: 9780307455567
ISBN10: 0307455564
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming of Age

About the Author
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), a poor clergyman's daughter from Yorkshire, England, worked as a teacher and governess before her publication of Jane Eyre won her instant fame. She went on to produce three more novels before dying at the age of thirty-eight.