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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.
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- Title
- Villette
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Charlotte Brontë
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Released
- 2009
- Pages
- 657
- ISBN10
- 0307455564
- ISBN13
- 9780307455567
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Religious Topics, Love, Women, Classics, Friendship, France, School, British Literature, Death, Gifts for men, England, 19th century, Great Britain, English Literature, London, Loneliness, Teachers, Men, Upbringing and Education, Pink October
- First published
- 1853
- Original title
- Villette
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- 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.