Villette
Paperback. Pub Date :2012-10-25 Pages: 624 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books The Penguin English Library Edition of Villette by Charlotte Bronte.That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone. and Hope a false idol - blind. bloodless. and...
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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-10-25 Pages: 624 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books The Penguin English Library Edition of Villette by Charlotte Bronte.That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone. and Hope a false idol - blind. bloodless. and of granite core. I felt. too. that the trial God had appointed me was gaining its climax. and must now be turned by my own hands. hot. feeble. trembling as they wereWith 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. an initially suspicious headmaster and her own complex feelings . first for the schools English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emmanuel. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141199887 (0141199881)
Publish date: October 25th 2012
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 616
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Classic Literature,
19th Century,
Gothic
TITLE: Villette AUTHOR: Charlotte Bronte _____________________________ DESCRIPTION: "Villette is Charlotte Brontë's powerful autobiographical novel of one woman's search for true love, edited with an introduction by Helen M. Cooper in Penguin Classics.With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe...
I'm a little late with my reviews of the books of 1915! Then again, what's really the difference between a century, and a century and ten weeks? The Song of The Lark by Willa Cather I’m going to go out on a limb and say this was the best novel of 1915. When I told my brother I was reading T...
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 ...
I'm giving it four stars purely because it got me out of a reading rut. And most of it was good! The writing was beautiful and perfect. However, after all that flirting, banter slipping into French, and pet names--Lucy and Ginerva did not end up bumping uglies. I find that mightily atrocious.
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...
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