Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781857150681
Published: December 1992
Imprint: Everyman
Page Extent: 314
Format: Hardback
RRP 395.00

Villette

Charlotte Bronte

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The narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette

About the Author

Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Brontë lived from 1816 to 1855. Jane Eyre appeared in 1847 and was followed by Shirley (1848) and Vilette (1853). In 1854, Charlotte Brontë married her father’s curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died during her pregnancy on March 31, 1855, in Haworth, Yorkshire. The Professor was posthumously published in 1857.

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