Villette - Charlotte Bront

Part Of Penguin's Beautiful Hardback Clothbound Classics Series, Designed By The Award-winning Coralie Bickford-smith, These Delectable And Collectible Editions Are Bound In High-quality Colourful, Tactile Cloth With Foil Stamped Into The Design.with Neither Friends Nor Family, Lucy Snowe Sets Sail From England To Find Employment In A Girls' Boarding School In The Small Town Of Villette. There, She Struggles To Retain Her Self-possession In The Face Of Unruly Pupils, The Hostility Of Headmistress Madame Beck, And Her Own Complex Feelings - First For The School's English Doctor And Then For The Dictatorial Professor Paul Emanuel. Drawing On Her Own Deeply Unhappy Experiences As A Governess In Brussels, Charlotte Bront'sautobiographical Novel, The Last Published During Her Lifetime, Is A Powerfully Moving Study Of Loneliness And Isolation, And The Pain Of Unrequited Love, Narrated By A Heroine Determined To Preserve An Independent Spirit In The Face Of Adverse Circumstances.