Villette" is Charlotte Bronte's powerful autobiographical novel of one woman's search for true love edited with an introduction by Helen M. Cooper in " Penguin Classics". 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 & her own complex feelings
- first for the school's English doctor & then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emanuel. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels Charlotte Bronte's autobiographical novel the last published during her lifetime is a powerfully moving study of loneliness & isolation & the pain of unrequited love narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances. Helen M. Cooper's new introduction places the novel in the context of Bronte's life & career & argues for the importance of the novel as an exploration of imperialism. Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) eldest of the Bronte sisters was born in Thornton West Yorkshire. " Jane Eyre" was first published in 1847 under the pen-name Currer Bell & was followed by " Shirley" (1848) & " Vilette" (1853). In 1854 Charlotte Bronte married her father's curate Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died during her pregnancy on 31 March 1855 in Haworth Yorkshire. " The Professor" was posthumously published in 1857. If you liked " Villette" you may enjoy Elizabeth Gaskell's " Cranford" also available in " Penguin Classics". "I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me for I have been reading " Villette"." (George Eliot). " Her finest novel". (Virginia Woolf)."
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This novel is based on the author's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. It is a moving tale of repressed feelings & subjection to cruel circumstance & position borne with heroic fortitude. It is also the story of a woman's right to love & be loved. ...

I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me for I have been reading Villette a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. George Eliot Lucy Snowe in flight from an unhappy past leaves England & finds work as a teacher in Madame Becks school in Villette. Strongly drawn to the fiery autocratic schoolmaster Monsieur Paul Emanuel Lucy is compelled by Madame Becks jealous interference to assert her right to love & be loved. Based in part on Charlotte Brontes experience in Brussels ten years earlier Villette (1853) is a cogent & dramatic exploration of a womans response to the challenge of a constricting social environment. Its deployment of imagery comparable in power to that of Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights & its use of comedy D Sironic or exuberant D Sin the service of an ultimately sombre vision make Villette especially appealing to the modern reader. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its range of best-loved essential classics. ' Sleep went quite away. I used to rise in the night look round for her beseech her earnestly to return. A rattle of the window a cry of the blast only replied
- Sleep never came!' Based on Charlotte Bronte's own experiences as a governess in Brussels her last novel tells the story of lonely Lucy Snowe who finds employment at a girls' boarding school in the town of Villette. Finding the students challenging & experiencing the pain of unrequited love for the first time Lucy becomes increasingly isolated in a world governed by societal expectation & struggles to maintain her integrity in the face of her envious & watchful employer Madame Beck.
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Tracing the arc of van Goghs career this volume presents his portraits & self-portraits landscapes & haunting interiors. Readers will learn details of van Goghs complicated personal life including his struggles with mental illness & his close but difficult relationship with his brother Theo. Also included here are an anthology of paintings information on the museums where they reside a timeline of the painters personal & artistic highlights & bibliography. Overflowing with impeccably reproduced images this book offers full-page spreads of masterpieces as well as highlights of smaller details
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