Villette (Modern Library Classics Series)
Villette! Villette! Have you read it? exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power.
Villette! Villette! Have you read it? exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780375758508
Publish date: 28-10-2001
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Classic Literature,
19th Century,
Gothic,
Fiction
Just finished Villette and I must say I have so many mixed feelings. I've been reading all the Bronte sisters' work and I feel Villette was the closest to home to Charlotte's real life experience. Lucy tends to play almost mind games with the reader as she doesn't let you in on certain things which ...
Villette is a novel that makes more sense when the reader has knowledge of Charlotte Bronte's biography and understands the turmoil in her life at the time she wrote it. Written after her sisters' deaths, Charlotte's anguish is written into almost every word of the novel. As a reader, it is difficul...
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