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Villette
Hardback Edition: 1
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.
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Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels, Charlotte Bront's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love.
Pages : 672
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Publication date : 2016-11-14
Subjects: Fiction, Classics (pre C.1945), Contemporary, Historical Fiction