Charlotte Bronte

Villette - Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions Charlotte Bronte

Publisher Marketing: 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 and an irritable schoolmaster develops feelings for her, Lucy believes she may at last be free from loneliness if her rigorous self-control doesn't conceal her true passion. 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 struggles to find independence and love on her own terms." Review Citations:

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/1995 pg. 84 (EAN 9780192500472, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2000 pg. 79 (EAN 9780679602743, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 110 (EAN 9780679602743, Hardcover)

Booklist 09/01/1993 pg. 11 (EAN 9780460872478, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Bronte, Charlotte Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) was from an English family that produced three novelists: herself, Emily, and Anne. Besides Jane Eyre, her best known work is Wuthering Heights, also available from Brilliance Audio.