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Elentarri's Book Blog
Elentarri's Book Blog rated it 4 years ago
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...
brokenbiscuits
brokenbiscuits rated it 8 years ago
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...
Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it 8 years ago
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 ...
Rough Draft Hero
Rough Draft Hero rated it 9 years ago
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.
Book Ramblings
Book Ramblings rated it 9 years ago
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...
Carpe Librum
Carpe Librum rated it 10 years ago
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...
Words of a Bibliophile
Words of a Bibliophile rated it 10 years ago
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...
Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite
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 (...
Jenny's Book Bag
Jenny's Book Bag rated it 10 years ago
I was surprised that I liked this one.
Jenny's Book Bag
Jenny's Book Bag rated it 10 years ago
I was surprised that I liked this one.
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