Villette is Charlotte Bronte's last work. It is like all Bronte novels difficult to understand. Not a great deal happens in it and what does happen happens very slowly, too slowly at times. The last third or so of the book was quite draggy at times. The main character of the novel is Lucy Snowe ...
According to The Telegraph Charlotte Brontë’s Villette is better than her best known work [b:Jane Eyre|10210|Jane Eyre|Charlotte Brontë|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327867269s/10210.jpg|2977639]. This bold declaration alone put Villette in my reading list because Jane Eyre really is one of the bes...
I'm going to give this book-a-day thing a shot because I love seeing other people's posts. For Day 1, I'm choosing Charlotte Bronte's Villette as the ideal book to curl up with in front of the fire. I adore each Bronte novel, but this one is my favorite because I felt a memorable connection to the...
I first started this book in June 2013 but couldn't get through with it because mine was a free e-book without footnotes. These footnotes are essential because many of the characters speak a lot of French every few pages. So I got myself a paper book with proper translations in the footnotes and sta...
Charlotte Brontë's 1853 novel, Villette, is impossible to read as pure fiction. In 1842, Charlotte and Emily Brontë traveled to Brussels, to teach English and music at a boarding school. Charlotte returned a year later. While she was there, she had the misfortune to fall in love with a married man (...
Virginia Woolf considered Villette Bronte’s “finest novel” and George Eliot preferred it to Jane Eyre. The friend who recommended it to me feels that way too, and in her review on Goodreads called it a “a beautifully constructed novel, with a complex and often frustrating narrator and quite possibly...
My main impression from this book is that Lucy Snowe, the narrator and the main character of Villette, can compete for the title of the greatest bore in English literature (and world literature as well). Nobody is good enough for her except a couple of well bred English angels, and even then she wou...
Have you ever had one of those days where everything goes wrong? For Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette, her entire life is like one of those days. Having lost her family at a young age due to mysterious circumstances never quite revealed, she journeys alone to Villette where she becomes a gover...
I finished this book last week, but it's taken me a while to figure out how to rate it. In many ways, it is "amazing," but I'm not sure I loved it--at least not the whole of it. I think it would have helped if I were better at reading French, or if my edition had footnotes on the bottom of the page ...
I had some real problems with Villette, and not just because I didn't like the ending. For a start, I felt it was a little on the long side. A good edit probably wouldn't have gone astray. It certainly gave it a ponderous feeling. Also, Charlotte Bronte didn't always seem sure of where she wanted to...
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