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Villette (Paperback, New)
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Villette (Paperback, New)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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List price R296
Loot Price R246
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'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 Bronte's experience in Brussels ten years
earlier, Villette (1853) is a cogent and dramatic exploration of a
woman's response to the challenge of a constricting social
environment. Its deployment of imagery comparable in power to that
of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and its use of comedy-ironic
or exuberant-in the service of an ultimately sombre vision, make
Villette especially appealing to the modern reader. ABOUT THE
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