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‘I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading\u00a0<\/b>Villette<\/i><\/b>, a still more wonderful book than\u00a0<\/b>Jane Eyre<\/i><\/b>.’<\/b><\/p>\n

George Eliot<\/p>\n

Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck’s school in ‘Villette’. Strongly drawn to the fiery autocratic schoolmaster Monsieur Paul Emanuel, Lucy is compelled by Madame Beck’s jealous interference to assert her right to love and be loved.<\/p>\n

Based in part on Charlotte Bront\u00eb’s experience in Brussels ten years earlier,\u00a0Villette<\/i>\u00a0(1853) is a cogent and dramatic exploration of a woman’s response to the challenge of a constricting social environment. Its deployment of imagery comparable in power to that of Emily Bront\u00eb’s\u00a0Wuthering Heights<\/i>, and its use of comedy\u2013ironic or exuberant\u2013in the service of an ultimately sombre vision, make\u00a0Villette<\/i>\u00a0especially appealing to the modern reader.
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\nAuthor: Charlotte Bronte
\nPublisher: Oxford University Press
\nFormat: Paperback | 592 pages
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