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Villette

Villette

Charlotte Brontë - Author

Helen Benedict - Afterword by

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ISBN 9780451529220 | 592 pages | 03 Feb 2004 | Signet Classic | 4.40 x 6.73in | 18 - AND UP
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Brontë's romantic heroine Lucy Snowe, a penniless governess attempting to begin life anew in France, is an exceptional example of a great writer transforming her life into art.

I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette... (George Eliot)"

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