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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-10006235616X

ISBN-139780062356161

eBay Product ID (ePID)22038210775

Product Key Features

Book TitleVillette

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicClassics, Contemporary Women, Literary, Romance / General

GenreFiction

AuthorMallory Ortberg, Charlotte Bronte

Book SeriesHarper Perennial Deluxe Editions Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight15.5 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2015-298486

SynopsisA deluxe Harper Perennial Legacy Edition, with an introduction from Mallory Ortberg, New York Times best-selling author of Texts from Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte's final and most autobiographical novel-even more critically acclaimed than Jane Eyre during its time-is a brilliant story of repressed passion and unrequited love in the fictional French town of Villette Lucy Snowe is a young woman alone in the world after a terrible event of which she never speaks. With no home, no family, and no prospects, she sets out on her own to the small French town of Villette, where she finds work as a governess at a boarding school for girls. When a handsome doctor from her past appears in Villette, Lucy believes she may at last be free of loneliness-if her rigorous self-control doesn't conceal her true feelings. Based on Charlotte Bronte's own experiences at a boarding school in Belgium, Villette is an intense psychological portrait of its heroine, a woman who so strenuously tries to hide her passions that she cannot help but reveal them., Charlotte Bronte's final and most autobiographical novel--even more critically acclaimed than Jane Eyre during its time--is a brilliant story of repressed passion and unrequited love in the fictional French town of Villette Lucy Snowe is a young woman alone in the world after a terrible event of which she never speaks. With no home, no family, and no prospects, she sets out on her own to the small French town of Villette, where she finds work as a governess at a boarding school for girls. When a handsome doctor from her past appears in Villette, Lucy believes she may at last be free of loneliness--if her rigorous self-control doesn't conceal her true feelings. Based on Charlotte Bronte's own experiences at a boarding school in Belgium, Villette is an intense psychological portrait of its heroine, a woman who so strenuously tries to hide her passions that she cannot help but reveal them., A gorgeously designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Charlotte Bronte's final and most autobiographical novel, even more critically acclaimed than Jane Eyre during its time. A brilliant story of repressed passion and unrequited love, this special edition features French flaps and foil printing on the cover, and includes an introduction from Mallory Ortberg, New York Times bestselling author of Texts from Jane Eyre. Lucy Snowe is a young woman alone in the world after a terrible event of which she never speaks. With no home, no family, and no prospects, she sets out on her own to the small French town of Villette, where she finds work as a governess at a boarding school for girls. When a handsome doctor from her past appears in Villette, Lucy believes she may at last be free of loneliness--if her rigorous self-control doesn't conceal her true feelings. Based on Charlotte Bronte's own experiences at a boarding school in Belgium, Villette is an intense psychological portrait of its heroine, a woman who so strenuously tries to hide her passions that she cannot help but reveal them., A deluxe Harper Perennial Legacy Edition, with an introduction from Mallory Ortberg, New York Times best-selling author of Texts from Jane EyreCharlotte Bronte s final and most autobiographical novel even more critically acclaimed than Jane Eyre during its time is a brilliant story of repressed passion and unrequited love in the fictional French town of VilletteLucy Snowe is a young woman alone in the world after a terrible event of which she never speaks. With no home, no family, and no prospects, she sets out on her own to the small French town of Villette, where she finds work as a governess at a boarding school for girls. When a handsome doctor from her past appears in Villette, Lucy believes she may at last be free of loneliness if her rigorous self-control doesn t conceal her true feelings.Based on Charlotte Bronte s own experiences at a boarding school in Belgium, Villette is an intense psychological portrait of its heroine, a woman who so strenuously tries to hide her passions that she cannot help but reveal them."

LC Classification NumberPR4167