Villette
Editorial HARPER COLLINS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher HARPER COLLINS
- ISBN13 9780007449415
- ISBN10 0007449410
- Type Book
- Pages 192
- Collection Collins Classics #
- Published 2012
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Sections
English LiteratureVillette
Editorial HARPER COLLINS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
HarperCollins 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 and experiencing the pain of unrequited love for the first time, Lucy becomes increasingly isolated in a world governed by societal expectation and struggles to maintain her integrity in the face of her envious and watchful employer, Madame Beck.