Villette
Record details
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote
electronic - Publisher: [Franklin, Tenn.] : Naxos AudioBooks, 2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 20:04:02. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Mandy Weston. |
Target Audience Note: | Grade range: grade 9 - grade 12. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 288440 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | British -- Belgium -- Fiction Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction Brussels (Belgium) -- Fiction Women teachers -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Autobiographical fiction. Psychological fiction. Love stories. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
Now considered by many to be Charlotte Bront�e's best novel, though unlikely to eclipse Jane Eyre in fame and popularity, Villette is largely concerned with the experiences of Lucy Snowe in a girl's boarding school in a fictionalised Belgium. Lucy flees unhappiness in England only to find more abroad. Her love for Dr. John unrequited, she slowly realises that a deeper attachment is growing between her and her irascible domineering mentor and colleague, M. Paul Emanuel. The promise of fulfilment and the realisation of love with a man with whom she might live on something like equal terms hangs in the balance in a story that dwells on powerful emotions without ever lapsing into sentimentality.