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Villette (AmazonClassics Edition)

By: Charlotte Brontë
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
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Without family or means, the strong-willed Lucy Snowe escapes the English countryside for the town of Villette. Though overwhelmed by a new culture and a foreign language, Lucy finds employment at an all-girls boarding school. Her self-reliance is soon compromised by her affections for two men: the kindhearted Dr. Bretton and the imperious professor M. Paul Emanuel. As Lucy longs for both independence and passion in a patriarchal society, fate plays its hand.

Inspired by Charlotte Brontë’s own experiences while teaching in Brussels, Villette is revolutionary for its modernity and unsparing psychological insight into the mind of an isolated and conflicted woman.

Revised edition: Previously published as Villette, this edition of Villette (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Victorian
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Loved it. The writing is bright and exciting, sndvery rich compared to modern ways of speaking. Much is thoughtfully discussed that we don’t think about much now. Emotional and passionate.

Engroy

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Such a tender story about a woman who had to be strong, and never expected love, but ended up finding it (this part is fair) and then losing it. And yet I think she will go on and make a good life for herself, persevering through this trial as she has all the rest, with the occasional help of true friends. Though the ending is sad, it is not hopeless.

Life is not fair

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Women in the time of the writing of this book had very little options if they found themselves on their own. But the despondency of the protagonist Lucy Snowe was overpowering and gripping, so I cannot say the book was not written well.

It is not the type of book that left me thinking or refreshed. I was left despondent and downhearted. so although well written it is not a book I would read again.

I am sure many a woman's and man's lige have ended in such a way. The Hope before us all is that it is not what God purposed for our lives nor will it be our future.

Too heartbreaking

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Couldn't even make it a chapter in. The sound quality if both muffled and static-y. The narrator sounds whiney and like she's trying to be sensuous with a bad accent.

Awful Narrator

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