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Villette : a tale

The story of a penniless English governess, a foreign school in Belgium, and mysterious incidents involving jealousy and love.

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  • "VILLETTE"
  • "Villette"
  • "Villette"@pl
  • "Sisters Brontë"@en
  • "Clarendon edition of the novels of the Brontës"
  • "Works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë in twelve volumes, vol. V [and] VI"@en
  • "Life and works"
  • "Complete works of Charlotte Brontë and her sisters"

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  • "The story of a penniless English governess, a foreign school in Belgium, and mysterious incidents involving jealousy and love."@en
  • "A semi-autobiographical novel about a young, poor and unattractive English teacher who takes a post at a Belgian school where she gains esteem and affection through sheer strength of character."
  • "Lucy Snowe makes her way by teaching, as she unhappily watches John Bretton's infatuation for the flirt, Ginevra Fanshawe, but then she falls in love with and transforms the professor, Monsieur Paul Emanuel."@en
  • "Villette is the semi-autobiographical tale of Lucy Snowe. Left with no family and no money, Lucy goes against her own timid nature and travels to the small city of Villette, France, where she becomes a school teacher in Madame Beck's school for girls. -WorldCat.org."@en
  • "Lucy Snowe makes her way by teaching, as she unhappily watches John Bretton's infatuation for the flirt, Ginevra Fanshawe. 'She then falls in love with and transforms the professor, Monsieur Paul Emanuel."@en
  • "Lucy Snowe makes her way by teaching, as she unhappily watches John Bretton's infatuation for the flirt, Ginevra Fanshawe. 'She then falls in love with and transforms the professor, Monsieur Paul Emanuel."
  • "Lucy Snowe's quest for her place in the world takes her to Belgium as a governess/teacher in a girl's boarding school, where many adventures await her."
  • "Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness."@en
  • "Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness."
  • "With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette."@en
  • "With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit."
  • "Een Engels meisje reist begin 19e eeuw naar het vasteland en vindt daar een baan als lerares Engels op een meisjeskostschool in Frankrijk."
  • "Lucy Snowe leaves her home in England to teach at a girls' boarding school on the Continent."@en
  • "BrontE's romantic heroine Lucy Snowe, a penniless governess attempting to begin life anew in France, is an exceptional example of a great writer transforming her life into art."@en
  • "General Adult. A new edition of this classic from one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Features the definitive Clarendon edition of Villette which is sourced from the earliest printings of Brontes great work. The text is supplemented with a newly commissioned introduction, which gives a thorough and in depth analysis of the context of this fine example of the nineteenth century novel."
  • "General Adult. A new edition of this classic from one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Features the definitive Clarendon edition of Villette which is sourced from the earliest printings of Brontes great work. The text is supplemented with a newly commissioned introduction, which gives a thorough and in depth analysis of the context of this fine example of the nineteenth century novel."@en
  • "Dvoudílný román ztvárňuje osudy mladé osiřelé dívky - vypravěčky děje, která si vzdor potížím, jakým byla vystavena osamělá žena viktoriánské doby, dokáže vybudovat samostatnou nezávislou existenci a přitom prožije krásný milostný vztah k obdivovanému muži."
  • "This 1905 work offers the first volume of Brontë's 1853 novel."@en
  • "Based on Charlotte Bronte's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, this is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude."@en
  • "Villette is a novel by Charlotte Bronte, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. The novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as its acute tracing of Lucy's psychology, particularly Bronte's use of Gothic doubling to represent externally what her protagonist is suffering internally. Villette is most commonly celebrated for its explorations of gender roles and repression ..."@en
  • "Fleeing an unhappy past in England, penniless Lucy Snowe starts life anew at a boarding school in cosmopolitan Villette, a stand-in for Brussels. But the mysterious incidents involving jealousy and love that follow give Charlotte Bronte's final novel much of the Gothic tone and psychological incisiveness that prompted George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and others to call Villette her finest work."
  • "Fleeing an unhappy past in England, penniless Lucy Snowe starts life anew at a boarding school in cosmopolitan Villette, a stand-in for Brussels. But the mysterious incidents involving jealousy and love that follow give Charlotte Bronte's final novel much of the Gothic tone and psychological incisiveness that prompted George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and others to call Villette her finest work."@en
  • "I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.' George Eliot Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck's school in 'Villette'. Strongly drawn to the fiery autocratic schoolmaster Monsieur Paul Emanuel, Lucy is compelled by Madame Beck's jealous interference to assert her right to love and be loved. Based in part on Charlotte Bront--euml--;'s experience in Brussels ten years earlier, Villette (1853) is a cogent and dramatic exploration of a wo."@en
  • "Lucy Snowe makes her way by teaching, as she unhappily watches John Bretton's infatuation for the flirt, Ginevra Fanshawe. She then falls in love with and transforms the professor, Monsieur Paul Emanuel."@en
  • "Hailed as Charlotte BrontE' s " finest novel" by Virginia Woolf, Villette is the timeless semi-autobiographical tale of Lucy Snowe. Left with no family and no money, Lucy goes against her own timid nature and travels to the small city of Villette, France, where she becomes a school teacher in Madame Beck' s school for girls. During her stay, she falls in love-- twice-- and discovers an independent, inner strength rarely seen in women of her time."@en
  • "The story of an English teacher at a French boarding school and her struggle for independence when she finds herself caught between two men, Villette is an enduring classic."
  • "Left with no family and no money, Lucy Snowe goes against her own timid nature and travels to the small city of Villette, France, where she becomes a school teacher in Madam Beck's school for girls."
  • "Loosely based on her own experiences, Charlotte Bronte's Villette is the story of a destitute, young Englishwoman who travels abroad to escape a family tragedy and find her way in the world. The novel follows Lucy Snowe as she moves to the city of Villette, in the fictional kingdom of Labassecour, to take up a job teacher at school for girls. The bright but secretive Lucy soon thrives in her new position and is soon reconnected with an old friend, Dr. John Graham Bretton, whom she finds herself falling in love with, though he has eyes for someone else. Charlotte Bronte's last novel, a gripping tale of love and disappointment that has been praised for its portrayal of Lucy's inner struggles, is considered alongside Jane Eyre as her best work."@en
  • "With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her own complex feelings."@en
  • "Villette, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the <A href=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/classics/index.asp?z=y&cds2Pid=16447&sLinkPrefix>Barnes & Noble Classics</A> series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:<UL type=disc><LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Biographies of the authors <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Footnotes and endnotes <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Comments by other famous authors <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Bibliographies for further reading <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. <P style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt class=MsoNormal>Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel, Villette explores the inner life of a lonely young Englishwoman, Lucy Snowe, who leaves an unhappy existence in England to become a teacher in the capital of a fictional European country. Drawn to the school's headmaster, Lucy must face the pain of unrequited love and the question of her place in society. For Villette, Brontë drew upon her own experiences ten years earlier, when she studied in Brussels and developed an unreciprocated passion for her married teacher. The novel also reflects her devastating sense of loss and isolation after the deaths of her beloved brother and sisters, and her confusion and conflicts over the fame she achieved for having written Jane Eyre. But despite Brontë's heartsick inspiration for the novel, and the grief that haunts its heroine, Villette is a story of triumph, in which Lucy Snowe comes to understand and appreciate her own strength and value. Celebrated by George Eliot and Virginia Woolf for its strikingly modern psychological depth and examination of women's roles, Villette is now recognized as Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece, surpassing even Jane Eyre. <P style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt>Laura Engel is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where she specializes in eighteenth-century British literature and drama."
  • "A penniless English governess, a foreign school in Belgium, and mysterious incidents involving jealousy and love give Charlotte Bronte's final novel much of the Gothic tone and psychological incisiveness of her masterpiece "Jane Eyre.""@en
  • ""VilletteJane Eyre. Arguably Bront?'s most refined and deeply felt work, Villette "VilletteJane Eyre.""@en
  • "Nach einer glücklos unsteten Jugend findet die unscheinbare Lucy Snowe in der Fremde Anstellung im Mädchenpensionat der kaltherzigen Madame Beck. Als ihre aufkeimende Liebe zum jungen Schularzt Dr. John schmerzlich unerwidert bleibt, droht die Einsamkeit sie zu erdrücken. Doch dann endeckt Lucy ihre Zuneigung zu dem eigenwilligen Literaturprofessor Paul Emanuel."
  • "This 1905 work offers the second volume of Brontë's 1853 novel."@en
  • "With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances."@en
  • "With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances."
  • "Is one of the wittier novels in English and one of the rare witty books in an age which specialized in sentimental comedy."
  • "After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. The novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as its acute tracing of Lucy's psychology, particularly Bronte's use of Gothic doubling to represent externally what her protagonist is suffering internally. Villette is most commonly celebrated for its explorations of gender roles and repression ..."@en
  • "After a family disaster, Lucy Snowe travels from England to the French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance."@en
  • "Hailed as Charlotte Brontë's "finest novel" by Virginia Woolf, Villette is the timeless semi-autobiographical tale of Lucy Snowe. Left with no family and no money, Lucy goes against her own timid nature and travels to the small city of Villette, France, where she becomes a school teacher in Madame Beck's school for girls. During her stay, she falls in love--twice--and discovers an independent, inner strength rarely seen in women of her time."@en
  • "Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief."

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  • "Classic"@en
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  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Powieść angielska"
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  • "Villette. Vol. 1"
  • "Villette : [regény]"@hu
  • "Villette, by Currer Bell (C. Brontë)"
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  • "Vilet : roman"
  • "Villette : a tale : [novel]"
  • "Villette : with an introd. by phyllis bentley"
  • "Villette : a tale"@en
  • "Villette : a tale"
  • "Villette : traduit de l'anglais par Albine Loisy et Brian Telford"
  • "Villette, by Currer Bell. A new edition"
  • "וילט"
  • "Villette. vol. 1 illustrated"
  • "Villette Vol.1"
  • "Syrjästäkatsojan tarina"@fi
  • "Syrjästäkatsojan tarina"
  • "Villette : Roman"
  • "Villette. Introd. and notes by Gilbert Phelps. Unabridged"@en
  • "Villette : a novel"@en
  • "Villette. With six illus. by John Jellicoe"@en
  • "露西 = Villette"
  • "Villette; a novel"@en
  • "Villette ... Oversat fra Engelsk : 1-5. Deel"
  • "Villette [With an introd. by May Sinclair]"@en
  • "Villette. [T. 1]"@pl
  • "Villette : [Abridged.]"
  • "Villette : [Abridged.]"@en
  • "Villette : Introd. by Margaret Lane"
  • "Lu xi"
  • "Villette : [a novel]"
  • "Villette. By Currer Bell [pseud.]"@en
  • "Villette. With an introduction by Phyllis Bentley [and a portrait]"@en
  • "Villette. Novel"
  • "Villette. Díl 1"
  • "Villette. [A novel.]"@en
  • "Villette : meisjeskostschool in Brussel"
  • "Villette : Übersetzt u. bearb. v. Paola Meister-Calvino. Nachw. v. Mary Hottinger"
  • "Villette"@es
  • "Villette"@it
  • "Villette"@da
  • "Villette"@en
  • "Villette"
  • "Villette"@hu
  • "Villette"@pl
  • "Villette [Rumanian edition]"
  • "Gorodok : roman"
  • "Городок"
  • "Villette : novela"@es
  • "Villette : in two volumes"
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  • "Villette : [printer's copy of the novel]"@en
  • "Lu xi = Villette"
  • "Villette. By Currer Bell ... In three volumes"@en
  • "Villette : complete works of Charlotte Brontë and her sisters ; with nine full page illustrations"@en
  • "Villette. T. 1-2"@pl
  • "Villette [dt.] Roman"
  • "Villette th an introduction by Mrs Humphry Ward"
  • "Vilet"
  • "빌레뜨"
  • "Villette: a tale"@en
  • "Villette Roman"
  • "Villette/ 1"
  • "Syrjästä katsojan tarina"@fi
  • "Pillett'ŭ"
  • "Villette, a novel"@en
  • "Villette in 2 vol"
  • "Villette : [novel]"
  • "Villette : By Currer Bell, ... In three volumes"
  • "Villete"@en
  • "Villete"
  • "Villette : By Currer Bell, Author of "Jane Eyre". In 2 Volumes. II"
  • "Villette With an introd. by Mrs. Humphry Ward"@en
  • "Villette : [regény]. 1. [köt.]"@hu
  • "Villette 1"
  • "Villette With six illus. by John Jellicoe"@en
  • "Villette. [T. 1-2]"@pl
  • "Вилет"
  • "Villette. (With introduction by May Sinclair.)"@en
  • "Villette : Traduit de l'anglais par Albine Loisy et Brian Telford"
  • "Villette : adapted from the novel by Charlotte Brontë"
  • "Villette : roman"@sl
  • "Villette : roman"
  • "Syrjästäkatsojan tarina (Villette)"@fi
  • "Villette in two volumes"@en
  • "Villette. 1"
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  • "Villette. : By Currer Bell"
  • "Villette in three volumes"@en
  • "Villette. With an introduction by Phyllis Bentley"@en
  • "Villette in two vols"
  • "Villette : A tale"
  • "Luxi"
  • "Villette : By Currer Bell, Author of "Jane Eyre". In 2 Volumes"
  • "Villette. With an Introd. by Phyllis Bentley"@en
  • "Syrjästäkatsojan tarina (Villette) englanista suomensi Tyyni Haapanen-Tallgren"
  • "Villette Vol. 1"
  • "Villette Vol. 2"
  • "Villette. T. 1"@pl
  • "Villette : [Roman]"
  • "Villette / T. I"
  • "Villette : Román. 1. [díl]"
  • "Villette. Introduction by Margaret Lane"@en
  • "Villette. Traduit de l'anglais par Albine Loisy et Brian Telford"
  • "Villette. In three volumes"@en
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