With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College.
Based on Charlotte Brontë's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.
Rising above the frustrations of confinement within a rigid social order, it is also the story of a woman's right to love and be loved.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN: 9781853260728
Number of pages: 496
Weight: 307 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 25 mm
I had read Villette before but bought this edition to add to my clothbound classics. One of the things I like about buying cloth bounds is that I re-read a classic like revisiting a fond memory. In the case is... More
I've been collecting the Penguin English Library Edition books for a few years because I think the Coraline Bickford-Smith covers are beautiful. I recently ordered 4 more books for my collection (Villette, A Tale... More
I really enjoyed this! I was slightly intimidated going in but found it such a pleasant read and you can definitely tell why it has stayed part of the literary canon all this time.
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