{"product_id":"villette-by-charlotte-bronte","title":"Villette By Charlotte Brontë","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished: 24\/06\/2004\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenres: Classics - Fiction - Romance - 19th - Century - Gothic - Victorian - Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\" id=\"scope_book_description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVillette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Charlotte Brontë's powerful autobiographical novel of one woman's search for true love, edited with an introduction by Helen M. Cooper in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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, the hostility of headmistress Madame Beck, and her own complex feelings - first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emanuel. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels, Charlotte Brontë'sautobiographical novel, the last published during her lifetime, is a powerfully moving study of loneliness and isolation, and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelen M. Cooper's new introduction places the novel in the context of Brontë's life and career and argues for the importance of the novel as an exploration of imperialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharlotte Brontë (1816-55), eldest of the Brontë sisters, was born in Thornton, West Yorkshire.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas first published in 1847 under the pen-name Currer Bell, and was followed by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eShirley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1848) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVilette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1853). In 1854 Charlotte Brontë married her father's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died during her pregnancy on 31 March 1855 in Haworth, Yorkshire.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Professor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas posthumously published in 1857.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you liked\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVillette\u003c\/i\u003e, you may enjoy Elizabeth Gaskell's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCranford\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVillette\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Eliot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Her finest novel'\u003cbr\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"publisher-information\" class=\"pdp-spec\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePublisher information\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublisher:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"publisher\"\u003ePenguin Books Ltd\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eISBN:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"isbn\"\u003e9780140434798\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNumber of pages:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"numberOfPages\"\u003e672\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDimensions:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"height\"\u003e197\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan itemprop=\"width\"\u003e128\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan itemprop=\"depth\"\u003e39\u003c\/span\u003e mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeight:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"weight\"\u003e476 g\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLanguage:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"inLanguage\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Starlight Library","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53319863697721,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"IQD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0951\/4624\/6457\/files\/9780140434798-jacket-large.webp?v=1779528713","url":"https:\/\/starlightlibrary.shop\/products\/villette-by-charlotte-bronte","provider":"Starlight Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}