Villette
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About This Book
With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë'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 coquette. The 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.
44
Chapters
~528 min
Est. Listening Time
English
Language
3.8 ★
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Chapters (44)
- Villette
- VILLETTE.
- CHAPTER I. BRETTON.
- CHAPTER II. PAULINA.
- CHAPTER III. THE PLAYMATES.
- CHAPTER IV. MISS MARCHMONT.
- CHAPTER V. TURNING A NEW LEAF.
- CHAPTER VI. LONDON.
- CHAPTER VII. VILLETTE.
- CHAPTER VIII. MADAME BECK.
- CHAPTER IX. ISIDORE.
- CHAPTER X. DR JOHN.
- CHAPTER XI. THE PORTRESS’S CABINET.
- CHAPTER XII. THE CASKET.
- CHAPTER XIII. A SNEEZE OUT OF SEASON.
- CHAPTER XIV. THE FÊTE.
- CHAPTER XV. THE LONG VACATION.
- CHAPTER XVI. AULD LANG SYNE.
- CHAPTER XVII. LA TERRASSE.
- CHAPTER XVIII. WE QUARREL.
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"Villette" was written by Charlotte Brontë. It is classified as Romance, Essays, Fiction, Horror & Gothic, Classic Literature, Victorian Literature, 19th Century Literature, Gothic Literature.
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