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Villette

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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Sleep went quite away. I used to rise in the night, look round for her, beseech her earnestly to return.

A rattle of the window, a cry of the blast only replied – Sleep never came!’ Based on Charlotte Brontë’s own experiences as a governess in Brussels, her last novel tells the story of lonely Lucy Snowe who finds employment at a girls’ boarding school in the town of Villette.

Finding the students challenging and experiencing the pain of unrequited love for the first time, Lucy becomes increasingly isolated in a world governed by societal expectation and struggles to maintain her integrity in the face of her envious and watchful employer, Madame Beck.

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William Collins
0007449410 / 9780007449415
Paperback / softback
823.8
02/01/2012
United Kingdom
English
Classics
672 p.