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CHARLOTTE BRONTE - GEBRAUCHT VILLETTE (PENGUIN ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Villette by Charlotte Brontë'That evening more firmly
than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone  and Hope a false idol -
blind  bloodless  and of granite core. I felt  too  that the trial God had appointed me was
gaining its climax  and must now be turned by my own hands  hot  feeble  trembling as they
were'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. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels 
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.The Penguin English Library - 100
editions of the best fiction in English  from the eighteenth century and the very first novels
to the beginning of the First World War.

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