{"product_id":"943887","title":"Villette","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ccenter\u003eVillette\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVillette\u003c\/i\u003e is 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\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\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\u003cp\u003eCharlotte Brontë (1816-55), eldest of the Brontë sisters, was born in Thornton, West Yorkshire. \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1847 under the pen-name Currer Bell, and was followed by \u003ci\u003eShirley\u003c\/i\u003e (1848) and \u003ci\u003eVilette\u003c\/i\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. \u003ci\u003eThe Professor\u003c\/i\u003e was posthumously published in 1857.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you liked \u003ci\u003eVillette\u003c\/i\u003e, you may enjoy Elizabeth Gaskell's \u003ci\u003eCranford\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading \u003ci\u003eVillette\u003c\/i\u003e' \u003cbr\u003eGeorge Eliot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Her finest novel'\u003cbr\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSPECIFICATIONS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003eCharlotte Bronte - Шарлотта Бронте\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003ePenguin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e2004\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e704 pst\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWidth:\u003c\/strong\u003e129 mm \/ 5,1'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e198 mm \/ 7,8'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e458 g\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e9780140434798\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47305145122954,"sku":"943887","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/1070\/6314\/files\/Villette_Charlotte_Bronte_-_9780140434798-1.jpg?v=1762628000","url":"https:\/\/bookstoreint.com\/products\/943887","provider":"Bookstore International","version":"1.0","type":"link"}