With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquetter. This first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey?a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature.

475 pages

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	October 1, 1986
ISBN13	9780553212433
Publishers	Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group I
Pages	576
Dimensions	172 × 108 × 36 mm · 272 g
Language	English

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