description: With her final novel, "Villette," Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, "Villette" is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even "Jane Eyre" in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquetter. This first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey--a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature.
language: English
title: Villette
titlecomplete: Villette
characters: Dr. John Graham Bretton, Paulina Mary Home, Ginevra Laura Fanshawe, M. Paul Carl David Emanuel, Mrs. Louisa Lucy Bretton, Madame Modeste Maria Beck, Lucy Snowe
genres: Literature, British Literature, Classics, Novels, Gothic, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 70969
publisher: Indypublish.Com