Name: Villette (Signet Classics) (in English)
Price: 4.17 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Bronte, Charlotte ; Benedict, Helen ; Trigiani, Adriana
ISBN: 9780451465443

portada Villette (Signet Classics) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Introduction by

Publisher

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

608

Format

Pocket Book

Dimensions

17.0 x 10.7 x 3.6 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9780451465443

Synopsis "Villette (Signet Classics) (in English)"

Fleeing an unhappy past in England, penniless Lucy Snowe starts life anew at a boarding school in cosmopolitan Villette, a stand-in for Brussels. The mystery, jealousy, and love that she finds there give Charlotte Brontë'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. Based on Brontë's own experiences in Brussels and her attachment to a brilliant teacher with a strong and eccentric personality, this superb romantic novel is an exceptional example of how a great writer transforms the ordinary events of her life into vivid and exciting art. Villette represents the inimitable Brontë genius by giving us a masterful portrait of Lucy Snowe, who belongs beside the great nineteenth-century literary heroines--and who will strongly appeal to modern readers. With a New Introduction by Adriana Trigiani and an Afterword by Helen Benedict

Charlotte Brontë

(Author)

View Author's Page

(Thornton, 1816 - Haworth, 1855) Escritora británica, la mayor de las tres hermanas Brontë (Charlotte, Emily y Anne) y la única que disfrutó de popularidad en vida gracias a Jane Eyre (1847), novela que la consagró en el mundo literario. Hija del pastor anglicano Patrick Brontë, Charlotte Brontë vivió con su familia durante la mayor parte de su infancia, en medio de aquel agreste y desolado paisaje que habría de reaparecer como fondo de los fantásticos y románticos episodios de sus novelas y de las de su hermana Emily.

See less