Villette By Charlotte Bronte (Paperback, 2012)

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Villette by Charlotte Bronte' That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone & Hope a false idol
- blind bloodless & of granite core I felt too that the trial God had appointed me was gaining its climax & must now be turned by my own hands hot feeble trembling as they were' 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 an initially suspicious headmaster & her own complex feelings first for the school's English doctor & then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emmanuel Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels Charlotte Bronte's last & most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation & the pain of unrequited love narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances The Penguin English Library
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