Villette
Title | Villette PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Brontë |
Publisher | Standard Ebooks |
Pages | 658 |
Release | 2020-06-16T19:28:12Z |
Genre | Fiction |
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Charlotte Brontë’s last novel, Villette, is thought to be most closely modelled on her own experiences teaching in a pensionnat in Brussels, the place on which the fictional town of Villette is based. In the novel, first published in 1853, we follow the protagonist Lucy Snowe from the time she is fourteen and lives with her godmother in rural England, through her family tragedies and departure for the town of Villette where she finds work at a French boarding school. People from her past reappear in dramatic ways, she makes new connections, and she learns the stories and secrets of the people around her. Through it all, the reader is made privy to Lucy’s thoughts, feelings, and journey of self-discovery. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Villette
Title | Villette PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Bronte |
Publisher | Everyman's Library |
Pages | 698 |
Release | 1992-03-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0679409882 |
Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallet.
Villette
Title | Villette PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Brontë |
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Pages | 492 |
Release | 1860 |
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Villette
Title | Villette PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Brontë |
Publisher | |
Pages | 670 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Belgium |
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Villette
Title | Villette PDF eBook |
Author | ︠ Charlotte Bront |
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Pages | 454 |
Release | 1911 |
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Villette
Title | Villette PDF eBook |
Author | Currer Bell |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2024-01-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368851748 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Villette
Title | Villette PDF eBook |
Author | Roya Nourizadeh |
Publisher | Lindhardt og Ringhof |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2021-07-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 8726605791 |
When a family catastrophe strikes, Lucy Snowe leaves England to teach English in a small Belgian town. Immediately after arriving in Villette, Lucy is drawn into the town’s charm, adventure, and romance. Brontë’s characteristic episodes of social challenges, meticulous creation of intimacy, and realism make ‘Villette’ a wonderfully passionate and psychological novel. Charlotte Brontë’s unromantic view on the world around her, and her outspoken opinions make this novel perfect for fans of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Miss Dalloway’. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was the eldest of the Brontë sisters, born to a family of six children. Her childhood was defined by difficulties at school, and she became a governess for her younger sisters at age 14. She was catapulted onto the literary main stage by her signature realistic, pragmatic, and unromantic commentaries on the state of the world around her in her novel Jane Eyre, which has been successfully adapted to film many times. Her other notable works include ‘Shirley’, ‘The Professor’, and ‘Villette’.