Charlotte Brontë
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| Original Title: | Villette |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Lucy Snowe, Mrs. Louisa Lucy Bretton, Madame Modeste Maria Beck, Ginevra Laura Fanshawe, Paulina Mary Home, Dr. John Graham Bretton, M. Paul Carl David Emanuel |
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With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë'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 coquette. The 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.Be Specific About About Books Villette
| Title | : | Villette |
| Author | : | Charlotte Brontë |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 573 pages |
| Published | : | October 9th 2001 by Modern Library (first published January 1853) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Romance. Literature. 19th Century. Historical. Victorian. European Literature. British Literature |
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"You are good, you are beautiful, but you are not mine."Bravissima, Brontë! Villette: melancholy, bitter, remorseless and much less urgent than Jane Eyre. And yet, it is a far more nuanced, accomplished, complex and mesmerising work than its older sibling.Charlotte Brontë's final novel is an exquisite examination of loneliness and unrequited love. Its a deeply interior novel and whilst the paucity of action might act as a deterrent to some, the dark introspection of Lucy Snowe and her existenceStill 5 stars...I loved this novel. Obsessive reader as I am, I feel simply obligated to consume all kinds of reviews and discussions after finishing a book that left me in awe and baffled. This time I even ventured into the territory of critical analyses and interpretations. Many things came up during my quest to find out what people think of the heroine of Villette and the book as a whole - that this is a novel about a woman who fights to attain her independence, that Lucy Snowe is a liar,
891. Villette, Charlotte BrontëVillette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. Villette was Charlotte Brontë's fourth novel, it was preceded by The Professor (her posthumously published first novel, of which Villette is a reworking), Jane Eyre, and
This book is dark, dark; even darker than any existentialist novel I have ever read, and how true and realistic. It seems that this novel is a kind of semi-autobiography.Like Jane Eyre, this time also the book starts with the stories of a girl, Lucy Snow, living for a while with her godmother. But it was only for a short while. Then she grows up (we don't know anything about the years in between from her 14-23 we just know that she had a difficult life that she had to work and nurse an old
This was a really beautiful journey which often left me puzzled, but in the end I absolutely loved it. Lucy, our main character, is determined to become independent and make something of her life, and so she goes from England to France, more specifically to the village of Villette. "Jane Eyre" is amongst my favourite books, so I was very interested to dive further into Charlotte Brontë's authorship. I did see some similarities between the two works; Charlotte Brontë likes to surprise her readers
This book is dark, dark; even darker than any existentialist novel I have ever read, and how true and realistic. It seems that this novel is a kind of semi-autobiography.Like Jane Eyre, this time also the book starts with the stories of a girl, Lucy Snow, living for a while with her godmother. But it was only for a short while. Then she grows up (we don't know anything about the years in between from her 14-23 we just know that she had a difficult life that she had to work and nurse an old
Lucy Snowe a plain -looking quiet 23-year- old intelligent woman in need of money and help, ( stating it mildly) she has no family left in England in an era before Victoria came to the throne, her godmother Mrs. Bretton who lived in a small town ironically named Bretton, has moved to colossal London with her handsome son John Graham, no way to find the widow there. Still Lucy is not without skill, she is a capable resourceful nevertheless almost destitute lady gathering all her few pitiful coins
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