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Villette
Charlotte Bronté
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Description for Villette
Hardback. 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, the hostility of headmistress Madame Beck, and her own complex feelings first for the school's English doctor and.. Editor(s): Cooper, Helen. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 207 x 41. Weight in Grams: 782.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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, the hostility of headmistress Madame Beck, and her own complex feelings - first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emanuel. Drawing ... Read more
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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, the hostility of headmistress Madame Beck, and her own complex feelings - first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emanuel. Drawing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Penguin Clothbound Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241198964
SKU
9780241198964
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About Charlotte Bronté
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 ... Read more
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
George Eliot