An edition of Villette, a novel (1853)

Villette

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An edition of Villette, a novel (1853)

Villette

  • 3.0 (3 ratings) ·
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  • 9 Currently reading
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In time for the 200th anniversary of her birth, a Penguin Hardcover Classics edition of the book many believe to be Charlotte Brontë's crowning achievement.

With 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 school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emmanuel. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels, Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Villette
2021, Independently Published
in English
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Villette
2020, Standard Ebooks
in English
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Villette
2009, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Villette (Everyman's Library Classics)
Villette (Everyman's Library Classics)
March 19, 1992, Everyman's Library
Hardcover in English - New Ed edition
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Villette
1968-01-01, n/a
hardcover
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Villette
1963
in English - With an introd. by Phyllis Bentley.
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Villette
1950-01-01, Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
Cover of: Villette
Villette
1900, Mershon
in English
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Villette
1900, Mershon
in English
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Villette.: With an introd. by Mrs. Humphry Ward.
1899, Harper
in English - Thornfield ed.
Cover of: Villette
Villette
1897, Smith, Elder & Co.
Cover of: Villette
Villette
1853, Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill, Smith, Taylor & Co
in English

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Pagination
518
Weight
0.859

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OL48798818M
ISBN 13
9798709898585

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