Villette (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions) - Softcover

Bronte, Charlotte; Ortberg, Mallory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006235616X ISBN 13: 9780062356161

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2015

Synopsis

A deluxe Harper Perennial Legacy Edition, with an introduction from Mallory Ortberg, New York Times best-selling author of Texts from Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte’s final and most autobiographical novel—even more critically acclaimed than Jane Eyre during its time—is a brilliant story of repressed passion and unrequited love in the fictional French town of Villette

Lucy Snowe is a young woman alone in the world after a terrible event of which she never speaks. With no home, no family, and no prospects, she sets out on her own to the small French town of Villette, where she finds work as a governess at a boarding school for girls. When a handsome doctor from her past appears in Villette, Lucy believes she may at last be free of loneliness—if her rigorous self-control doesn’t conceal her true feelings.

Based on Charlotte Bronte’s own experiences at a boarding school in Belgium, Villette is an intense psychological portrait of its heroine, a woman who so strenuously tries to hide her passions that she cannot help but reveal them.

About this title

About the Author:

Charlotte Brontė, born in 1816, was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontė sisters, and one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists. She is the author of Villette, The Professor, several collections of poetry, and Jane Eyre, one of English literature's most beloved classics. She died in 1855.

Mallory Ortberg is the cofounder of The Toast blog and the author of Texts from Jane Eyre. She lives in Oakland, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 006235616X
• ISBN 13: 9780062356161
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480