The Professor - Brossura

Bronte, Charlotte

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1848376154 ISBN 13: 9781848376151

Casa editrice: Arcturus Pub, 2010

Riassunto

The Professor, eventually published in 1857, was actually Charlotte Bronte's first novel, completed as early as 1846. The deliberately unromantic hero is William Crimsworth - the only time the author used a male narrator - in a story based on her own experiences as a language student in Belgium. The theme was reworked with a woman as the leading character in Villette (1853) and it has always been an interesting point of comparison for keen readers of Charlotte Bronte's work. '... as good as I can write. It contains more pith, more substance, more reality, in my judgment, than much of Jane Eyre.'

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The first novel written by the author of "Jane Eyre," "The Professor" is a story about the life of the resilient William Crimsworth. An English orphan raised by coldly aristocratic uncles, he rejects a life as a clergyman to work in his brother's mill in Yorkshire. Treated abominably in his tedious clerkship, Crimsworth escapes to Belgium and begins teaching in a boys' school. There he eventually meets the headmistress of a neighboring girls' school, Zoraide Reuter, as well as one of the teachers in the girls' school, Francis Henri. Narrated from a convincing male perspective, Bronte exercised her skill as a writer in telling a tale based on her own experiences as a student in Brussels, challenging many of the assumptions of Victorian society in the process. Crimsworth matures, finds a fulfilling profession, and discovers love in this significant commencement to Charlotte Bronte's literary career.

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• Editore: Arcturus Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1848376154
• ISBN 13: 9781848376151
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208