Name: Villette (Signet Classics)
Price: 17.76 NZD
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Author: Bronte, Charlotte ; Benedict, Helen ; Trigiani, Adriana
ISBN: 9780451465443

Type

Physical Book

Author

Introduction by

Publisher

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

608

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.0 x 10.7 x 3.6 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9780451465443

Synopsis "Villette (Signet Classics) "

Fleeing an unhappy past in England, penniless Lucy Snowe starts life anew at a boarding school in cosmopolitan Villette, a stand-in for Brussels. The mystery, jealousy, and love that she finds there give Charlotte Brontë's final novel much of the Gothic tone and psychological incisiveness that prompted George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and others to call Villette her finest work. Based on Brontë's own experiences in Brussels and her attachment to a brilliant teacher with a strong and eccentric personality, this superb romantic novel is an exceptional example of how a great writer transforms the ordinary events of her life into vivid and exciting art. Villette represents the inimitable Brontë genius by giving us a masterful portrait of Lucy Snowe, who belongs beside the great nineteenth-century literary heroines--and who will strongly appeal to modern readers. With a New Introduction by Adriana Trigiani and an Afterword by Helen Benedict

Charlotte Bronte

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(Thornton, 1816 - Haworth, 1855) British writer, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne) and the only one who enjoyed popularity during her lifetime thanks to Jane Eyre (1847), a novel that established her in the literary world. Daughter of the Anglican pastor Patrick Brontë, Charlotte Brontë lived with her family for most of her childhood, amidst that rugged and desolate landscape that would reappear as the backdrop of the fantastic and romantic episodes of her novels and those of her sister Emily.

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