‘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 Brontë’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.
Autor |
Charlotte Brontë |
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Vydavateľ |
Harper Collins |
Jazyk | anglický |
Väzba | mäkká |
Počet strán | 192 |
Formát | 111 x 178 mm |
EAN | 9780007449415 |
Edícia |
Harper Collins Classics |