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Villette

by Charlotte Brontë

Romance · Novel

Open Library OL1095403W

After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional Continental Europe city of Villette to teach at a girls' school. Villette was Charlotte Brontë's third and last novel published during her life.

About the author

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a first-person account of work, conscience, and desire that refuses to treat the heroine as scenery. It remains one of the clearest voices in the nineteenth-century novel. More of this shelf for Charlotte Brontë.

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