Villette - Brossura

Brontė, Charlotte

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140431187 ISBN 13: 9780140431186

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 1979

Riassunto

With her final novel, "Villette," Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, "Villette" is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even "Jane Eyre" in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquetter. This first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey--a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature.

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L'autore:

Charlotte Bronte (1816-55), sister of Anne Bronte and Emily Bronte. Jane Eyre appeared in 1847 and was followed by Shirley (1848) and Vilette (1853). In 1854 Charlotte Bronte married her father's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died during her pregnancy on March 31, 1855 in Haworth, Yorkshire.

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Book by Charlotte Bronte

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0140431187
• ISBN 13: 9780140431186
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 624
• Redattore: Lilly Mark