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...
4.5Reading Villette was a challenge in itself; it gave a lot of extra work to my brain and my laptop which was unnerving at times specially when dealing with those French wordings and sentences. But the journey with Lucy snow the protagonist was intriguing though melancholic at times. This book was ...
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...
Wowza.That's what you call a cliff-hanger.If I didn't know better, I'd swear she meant to write a sequel.............What a fabulous, sad, strong, odd, ultimately sympathetic creature is Lucy Snowe. Despite the ending, my feelings are optimistic for her. Indeed, I feel empowered by her.Charlotte Br...
Originally posted at Gypsy ReviewsAs the very last classic in my Christmas book haul, it was beginning to be tiring being saddled with these classics to finish reading before I could start tackling my TBR pile so that being said, I didn’t really have much patience when reading Villette so that might...
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...
La servir était mon unique devoir - ses souffrances, mon souci - la soulager, mon espoir - ses colères, ma punition - son estime, ma récompense."Les rêves que l'on fait en plein jour ne sont que des mensonges inspirés par le démon.""Mais, repris-je, après une seconde, si la présence physique est ina...
“Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars--a cage, so peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.”When I was growing up in ...
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