Villette

A still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. George EliotHer best novel. Virginia WoolfCharlotte Brontes final and most autobiographical noveleven more critically acclaimed than Jane Eyre during its timeis a brilliant story of repressed passion and unrequited love in the fictional city of Villette.Lucy Snowe is a young woman alone in the world.

Running from a dark past, with no home, no family, and no prospects, Lucy trades her English homeland for the French-speaking city of Villette.

She finds work at a boarding school for girls, where she encounters both intrigue and isolation.

When a handsome man from her past appears in Villette, Lucy believes she may at last be free of lonelinessif her rigorous self-control doesnt thwart her true hopes.Based on Charlotte Brontes 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.