Descriere - Villette

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`Sleep went quite away. I used to rise in the night, look round for her, beseech her earnestly to return. A rattle of the window, a cry of the blast only replied - Sleep never came!''


Based on Charlotte Bronte''s own experiences as a governess in Brussels, her last novel tells the story of lonely Lucy Snowe who finds employment at a girls'' boarding school in the town of Villette. Finding the students challenging and experiencing the pain of unrequited love for the first time, Lucy becomes increasingly isolated in a world governed by societal expectation and struggles to maintain her integrity in the face of her envious and watchful employer, Madame Beck.


ISBN: 9780007449415
Nr pagini: 528 pages
Format: 111 x 178 x 31mm | 280g
Anul aparitiei: 20 Mar 2012

Categorie: Carte straina » Literature & Biography

Autor: Bronte, Charlotte